In the late 1700s, plantation owner Catharine Littlefield ... machine from one that removes seeds to one that removes cotton, the design was very simple. An 1883 article in the North American ...

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

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 ...

The Gullah Geechee are the descendants of Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo and Sea Island cotton plantations of the lower Atlantic coast. Along with their unique Creole language ...

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 ...