Dozens of Black people across the U.S. have reported receiving alarming text messages claiming they were “selected” to pick cotton at the nearest plantation. The messages, which appeared just ...

What made cotton so desirable? In the 1790s Americas oldest crops, like tobacco, were depleting farmland and dropping in value. At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was ...

Nagpur: Dilip Pohane, a farmer from Hinganghat in Wardha district, reaped a record breaking 24 quintals of raw cotton per ...

Students (grades 5 - 8) "become" a boll of cotton. After researching U. S. geography and history from the earliest days of the American Industrial Revolution up to the Civil War, they relate ...