Sen. Tom Cotton says slavery in America as a “necessary evil upon which the union was built." Twitter erupts with allegations that his family owned slaves.

By 1850, total cotton production in Alabama was 564,429 bales on 4,4 million acres, with 16,100 cotton plantations in the state. Cotton production doubled in the state from 1850 to 1860, with ...

When speaking about slavery, Tom Cotton described it as a "necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as (Abraham) Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course ...

According to Victoria’s Secret, the company purchases 50,000-65,000 bales of cotton per year. In the 2022 harvest, about 13 percent of the cotton was purchased directly from Alabama farm partners.

Wearing thick gloves and a shawl wrapped around her face, Kanchen Kanjarya is busily picking cotton in the midday sun on her small farm in Mayapur in India's western state of Gujarat.

How A Cotton Sack, Passed Down Over Generations, Tells A Larger Story About Slavery In her new book, All That She Carried, historian Tiya Miles tells the story of an enslaved woman who, upon ...

Last week the crusading Scripps-Howard newspaper chain started a stark series of articles by Correspondent Hugh Russell Fraser about the "peonage of 8,000,000 share croppers in the ...

Though slavery was abolished in 1865, ... agreed to work 40 acres of corn and 20 acres of cotton on Bailey’s land, ... farm land decimated, and slavery abolished under the 13th Amendment, ...

In her new book, All That She Carried, historian Tiya Miles tells the story of an enslaved woman who, upon hearing her child was to be sold off, hastily packed her a bag with a few personal items.