Slavery spread from the seaboard to some of the new western territories and states as new cotton fields were planted, and by 1830 it thrived in more than half the continent. Within 10 years after ...

The harsh realities of plantation life are depicted, including the severe punishments and minimal provisions for field hands ... Keywords slavery, Mississippi, cotton gin, plantation life ...

Slavery and cotton production became synonymous ... Between 1910 and 1970, 6.5 million blacks went North,leaving the South, the cotton fields, and sharecropping behind. By the end of World War ...

Sept. 3. -- The controversy over the question whether Cotton Mather of Boston entered into a plot to capture William Penn and the first colony of Quakers and sell them as slaves in the Barbados ...