PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — There’s no painless way to explain the history of a massive brick structure being renovated into apartments in this central Alabama city — a factory that played a key ...

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 ...

Indeed, the “rate of exploitation of slaves in a field in Mississippi … was keyed to the exchange in Liverpool (port of entry for 85 percent of U.S. planters’ cotton) and the labor of mill ...

Students and parents have accused a Rochester, New York, middle school teacher of having Black students pick cotton during a lesson about slavery on Tuesday. Above, a representational image of a ...

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 ...

Rochester Teacher Under Fire for ‘Cotton Picking’ Lesson About Slavery. By Ny MaGee May 6, 2022; A photo shows colorful cotton field (Photo by Yasin Dikme/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) ...

With its forced labor in the cotton fields, Uzbekistan also was estimated to be the world’s second-worst country when ranked by the prevalence of slavery in proportion to the population.

A construction project in Alabama demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S. history in 2022 ...

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 ...

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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.