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.

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 ...

Barbados Cotton: The Government’s Labor Call Amid Slavery’s Lingering Threads. As the cotton harvest approaches, its success hinges on Bajans’ willingness to unify their economic potential ...

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, ...

Picking cotton on a plantation is, however you want to slice it, inextricably linked with the specter of slavery and sharecropping, whatever race the sharecropper might be.

Last week, he told The Austin Chronicle that when he was locked up at age 17, he was assigned to harvest cotton on a prison farm that was once home to a plantation. Offended at the prospect of picking ...

Many saw Cotton's remarks as an endorsement of the idea that slavery was a "necessary evil." He says he was only stating what the founders believed.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On a July day in 1875, Mary McLeod Bethune came into the world in a small log cabin on a South Carolina rice and cotton farm. Slavery and the Civil War had just ended 10 years ...

Lincoln tried to resettle 453 newly freed Black Americans on a cotton farm on Île à Vache. The disastrous plan ended in mutiny, and one year later, only 350 survived.

More than 100 U.S. leaders — lawmakers, presidents, governors and justices — have slaveholding ancestors, a Reuters examination found. Few are willing to talk about it.