A recent investigation reveals that child exploitation and forced labor are being used to pick cotton on dozens of farms in ...

Vector illustration of concept on the different type of people at work. Ancient Greece non-citizens set: a slave working in the fields, a woman spinning linen and a foreigner with his hat and staff.

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

The cotton boom created a demand for labor to work on cotton farms ... "The Business of Slavery: Who Benefits." New Georgia Encyclopedia. "Sherman's Field Order No. 15." The Urban Institute.

Harvest season while coronavirus. Two people working together to flatten the curve. Cotton picking season. Blooming cotton field, young woman evaluates crop before harvest, under a golden sunset light ...

In the intricate web of global commerce, the cotton supply chain serves as a vital thread connecting millions of ... Aditi, a single mother, described how her family’s debts forced her and her young ...

Even the intimacy of a man and a woman was subject to the absolute control of slave-owners. Grace and Guy were given the surname of their new owner and put to work in his cotton fields.

When our Constitution was adopted, cotton, as an article of field culture and of trade, was unknown to the country. What if the products and exports of the Slave ... to do her work -- and that ...

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Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...