Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” ...

Democrat leader Jasmine Crockett told a black congregation that illegal aliens are needed to do slave labor because "We done picking cotton!" ...

The Coosaw Sea Island Cotton Heritage Preserve is one of the few sites in the region that contains visible markers of sea ...

Within that community, not everyone was picking cotton or doing domestic work—some slaves worked ... The Park Service distinguishes between field slaves and house slaves, and notes differences in the ...

They brought with them slaves to do the backbreaking ... control the weighing and marketing of cotton, and control the recordkeeping. "We'd get $12 per bale and we had to pick hard in order ...

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 ...