In the 14 states that make up the U.S. cotton belt, ... Cotton: Bad Days on the Plantation; Cotton: Bad Days on the Plantation. 4 minute read. TIME. October 10, 1969 12:00 AM GMT-4.

It was a cotton plantation." After the Civil War, formerly enslaved people and their descendants continued to work as sharecroppers on the plantation. Related stories ...

Most of these plantations had fifty or fewer slaves, although the largest plantations have several hundred. Cotton was by far the leading cash crop, but slaves also raised rice, corn, sugarcane ...

*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 ...

“It said he has been chosen to be part of group B to go pick cotton at a plantation, and he will be picked up by a black van and to be ready by 6 p.m.

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.

Estimates of the number of Pacific Islanders captured by blackbirders and forced to work on cotton and sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia range from 61,610 to more than 100,000.

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- In an emotional journey bridging nearly two centuries, descendants of enslaved families returned to Durham's Stagville Plantation, marking 180 years since their ancestors ...