Explore how southern agriculture evolved through plantation farming, cotton production, and the invention of the cotton gin—transforming the ...
An unknown photographer took this image of enslaved individuals on a cotton plantation around 1850. Gift of the Hall Family Foundation In the mid-19th century, a Georgia plantation owner posed for a ...
This famous invention has a complex history. Eli Whitney had just graduated from Yale University in 1792, when he accepted a ...
Seven years after my dad died, I went to the place he was born for the first time. My dad was born on a cotton plantation in Greenwood, Mississippi, where his family were sharecroppers in the same ...
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