Mecklenburg County is set to begin construction this year on the transformation of the former Latta Plantation in ...

Mecklenburg County leaders revealed the final design for historic Latta Place at a community meeting Thursday night in ...

Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the South, banks in the North, shipping merchants, and the textile industry in Great Britain.

Johnston, describes the bounties of the new cotton lands. Norcom had migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi. He writes to Johnston, a North Carolina plantation owner, telling him of the ...

Required: Materials that inform students about conditions in early textile mills (e.g., those in Lowell) and conditions on cotton-growing plantations prior to the Civil War. Also recommended are ...