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 ...
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 ...
“I saw guys collapse,” Gross said of his days on the so-called farm line at Louisiana’s state ... It was once a patchwork of ...
Even for a crop that is seeing struggling prices, and one that requires constant care, the Musselwhites say cotton is a crop they love. “This is not my farm; it’s my family’s farm,” says ...
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 ...