Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas described slavery as a “necessary evil” in his ongoing effort to prevent US schools from teaching the 1619 Project, an initiative from The New York Times ...

Cotton and American Slavery. Share full article. Feb. 16, 1860. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 16, 1860, Page 1 Buy Reprints.

To learn more about the connection of cotton and slavery, tune in to PBS on October 29, 2013, 8-9 pm ET, for the premiere of episode two of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry ...

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.

Mohamed Saleh’s examination of some of the world’s earliest decolonial population censuses has revealed it led to a huge growth in slavery and state-coerced labour. When the American Civil War ...

Historically, the cultivation of cotton was inseparable from the exploitation of enslaved Africans, a system that began in Barbados in 1627 and persisted until the abolition of slavery in 1834.

War, Cotton and Slavery. Share full article. Aug. 27, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 27, 1861, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

The fashion industry’s record in tracking such abuses in its supply chains has not been good. Some $468 billion of garment imports in the G20 are at risk of modern slavery, equivalent to a third ...

“Made in the U.S.A.” has never looked or felt so fine. The father-daughter team of Mark Yeager and Anna Brakefield is taking cotton from farm to table, except with a "seed to sheets" twist.