Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the South, banks in the North, shipping merchants, and the textile industry in Great Britain.

They gained a sense of power simply by being white. In the lower South the majority of slaves lived and worked on cotton plantations. Most of these plantations had fifty or fewer slaves ...

A plaque commemorates The Cage, an enclosure where runaway slaves were detained until they were ... The decision to rekindle cotton harvesting at Hannay's Plantation has elicited mixed reactions. For ...

“When you’re interpreting Louisiana slavery,” says Hatfield, “it’s not better and it’s not worse—it’s just different.” When cotton prices soared, plantation owners were extremely well off and able to ...

This activity is an excerpt from our curriculum packet, "Cotton, Cloth, and Conflict: The Meaning of Slavery in a Northern Textile City ... the relationships between the industrial North and ...

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

that show the importance of geography and climate to the growing and transportation of cotton. Good primary sources include the writings of mill operatives, mill and boardinghouse rules and ...

Some 1.8 million slaves were forced to plant, grow and harvest the valuable crops. As well as tending the cotton plants, many of these people were sold, moved across state boundaries and put to work ...

It operated mainly as a cotton plantation until the last crop was ... and visitors can tour the McLeod family home as well as the slaves' living quarters. They will also learn about the ...

The cotton used was mostly imported from slave plantations. Slavery provided the raw material for industrial change and growth. The growth of the Atlantic economy was an integral part of the ...

A plaque commemorates The Cage, an enclosure where runaway slaves were detained ... The decision to rekindle cotton harvesting at Hannay’s Plantation has elicited mixed reactions.