*Sigh.* Black people around the US are sharing screenshots of texts they received from unknown numbers, all of which direct them to report to the "nearest plantation" and "pick cotton." The first ...
THOMAS COUNTY, Ga. (WCTV) -- Across North Florida and South Georgia, there are more than 200 hunting properties. The properties are former cotton plantations that transitioned into quail hunting ...
This famous invention has a complex history. Eli Whitney had just graduated from Yale University in 1792, when he accepted a ...
Jubilee Justice is a cooperative that helps Black farming communities practice regenerative agriculture. The organization harkens back to the legacy of practices used in the 19th and 20th centuries.
In 1793, Eli Whitney came up with the idea for a machine that would separate the sticky green seeds from the fluffy white ...
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — If you have just 30 minutes to sit down and chat with Ms. Gussie Dennis, you will be transported back in time to when families like hers lived on a plantation in South Carolina ...
An unknown photographer took this image of enslaved individuals on a cotton plantation around 1850. Gift of the Hall Family Foundation In the mid-19th century, a Georgia plantation owner posed for a ...
IN THE fields alongside Mississippi Highway 49, where the Meredith Freedom Marchers plodded in June, another Delta cotton crop is nearing harvest, continuing a partnership between man and earth that ...
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