Cotton Plantations

Slavery

Cotton Plantations

 ". . .plantations, where large numbers of enslaved Africans were held captive as slave labor and forced to produce crops to create wealth for a white elite." [Wikipedia] Read More

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Scene on a cotton plantation

Plantation—Cotton Picking

Blacks in a cotton field of South Carolina

Cotton pickers in the field

Gathering cotton in Georgia

Female slaves picking cotton

"We'se done all dis's Mornin'." [Girls with bale of cotton in the field.]

Cotton gin

Picking cotton on a Georgia plantation

Ginning cotton by steam

First cotton gin

Packing cotton

The cotton pickers

A cotton plantation on the Mississippi, 1884