The cotton plantation was America’s first big business, and the nation’s first corporate Big Brother was the overseer. And behind every cold calculation, every rational fine-tuning of the ...

The institution of slavery turned a poor, fledgling nation into a financial powerhouse, and the cotton plantation was America’s first big business. Behind the system, and built into it, was the ...

Across North Florida and South Georgia, there are more than 200 hunting properties. The properties are former cotton plantations that transitioned into quail hunting properties after the Civil War.

Cotton was 'king' in the plantation economy of the Deep South. The cotton economy had close ties to the Northern banking industry, New England textile factories and the economy of Great Britain.

FORT GEORGE ISLAND — In 1814, Zephaniah Kingsley brought his wife and three children to set up a Sea Island cotton plantation on this remote island near what is now Jacksonville. His wife, An… ...

When Carol Casey moved from Ohio to South Carolina 27 years ago, she picked Hilton Head Plantation — a vast, 4,200-home development built on several former cotton plantations on Hilton Head Island.

Before founding the Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion private prison corporation now known as CoreCivic, Terrell Don Hutto ran a cotton plantation the size of Manhattan. There ...

Recently I was invited to visit an antebellum cotton plantation called Hollywood, once owned by Dr. John Martin Taylor (1819-1884) and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Robertson Rives Taylor (1824-1868 ...

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 ...