A recent investigation reveals that child exploitation and forced labor are being used to pick cotton on dozens of farms in ...

Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful ...

You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation. Be ready at 12PM SHARP with your belongings. Our Executive Slaves will come get you in a Black Van, be prepared to be searched down ...

Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the southern economy and changing the dynamics of slavery. The first federal census of 1790 counted 697,897 slaves; by 1810, there were 1.2 ...

Slavery and cotton production became synonymous with the ... "We'd get $12 per bale and we had to pick hard in order to have money to buy food during that season," said Mississippi State Senator ...