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 ...

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

The contraband cotton slaves of South Carolina have, to some extent, been employed in the necessary work, and with good results. There are, according to the estimates made by one of our ...

Two House Democrats suggested during a Tuesday livestream that President Donald Trump is attempting to bring Black people ...

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 ...