Hundreds of artifacts found on historic cotton plantation By MELECIO FRANCO July 21, 2012 Bill D. West sang the song “The night they drove ole Dixie down” to attendees of the Coldspring San ...

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.

COTTON PLANTATIONS IN THE EAST. Share full article. June 26, 1887. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 26, 1887, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

Cotton was once king of South: ... In the early 1700s, the need for labor to work on the region’s cotton plantations helped make slavery an institution in the South, Mullins said.

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.

*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 ...

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.

Jones will discuss her research on the Polk family’s cotton plantations in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. James K. Polk served as U.S. president from 1845 to 1849.

The 1,800-acre cotton plantation at 11656 U.S. 84 in Frogmore, ... The plantation thrived during the 1850s and prides itself on history from that time period all the way up until the new millennium.

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 ...

Monkeys in the Cotton Fields. Share full article. March 24, 1867. ... News writes that in 1849 he owned a cotton plantation in Georgia, and that having occasion to visit the Island of Trinidad, ...