The New York Times25 天
Cotton and American Slavery.
Lord BROUGHAM sees only the black laborers who on the other side of the Atlantic, pick the cotton pods in slavery. Lord BROUGHAM deplores that in this tremendous importation of a thousand millions ...
PBS3 年
The Cotton Economy and Slavery
which easily separated cotton fiber from its seeds, was merely a motor for a global economic machine. Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation ...
PBS8 年
Growth and Entrenchment of Slavery
Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the southern economy and changing the dynamics of slavery. The first federal census of 1790 counted 697,897 slaves; by 1810, there were 1.2 ...
BBC6 年
Slave trade and the British economy
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 ...
Hollywood Unlocked on MSN5 个月
Black Middle School Students Given Cotton Pick And Clean During Slavery Lesson
The district sparked outrage after two Black students were given cotton as part of a class assignment about slavery. RELATED ...