that show the importance of geography and climate to the growing and transportation of cotton. Good primary sources include the writings of mill operatives, mill and boardinghouse rules and ...

A single person could clean — maybe — a pound of cotton a day. In the late 1700s, plantation owner Catharine Littlefield Greene introduced Whitney to a group of farmers were trying to decide ...

View of laborers preparing cotton for gins, on Alex. Knox's plantation, Mount Pleasant ... its cohort organizations that the Reconstruction process was undermined and overthrown in 1877 in ...

Tobacco, cotton, coffee, rice and sugar plantation owners needed cheap labor ... entrenched in the system it was a difficult and slow process. On January 1, 1808 the first great goal of the ...

This plantation was established in 1851, and by 1860, it was home to 74 enslaved people housed in 23 cabins. It operated mainly as a cotton plantation until the last crop was planted in 1922.

a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers. 2.

The messages say recipients have been “selected to pick cotton at [their] nearest plantation,” or “chosen ... we want to ...