Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, CanadaSlavery’s ghost haunts cotton gin factory’s transformation By: Jay Reeves, The Associated Press Posted: 9:09 AM CST Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 ...

Last year, Ghana marked 400 years since the first slave shipment left Ghana’s coast for the United States. Ghana has a dark history of being one of Africa’s main shipping points for slaves.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Rochester school officials are investigating allegations that a white teacher told his class of mostly Black students to pick seeds out of cotton and put on handcuffs during ...

The transatlantic slave trade was outlawed in 1808 and slavery was in decline before Eli Whitney invented the labor-saving gin to separate white cotton fibers from seeds. The demand for unpaid ...

A once-abandoned cotton gin factory that is being renovated into apartments stands beside Autauga Creek in Prattville, Ala., on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022.