As cotton cultivation spread, slaveholders in the tobacco belt, whose crop was no longer profitable, made huge profits by selling their slaves. This domestic slave trade devastated black families.

Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton ... in the day when slavery was still ...

During a lesson on slavery, her history teacher gave bags of cotton only to Black students. Autumn was then asked to pick and ...

From the Cotton ... a gigantic trade which keeps in motion an enormous mass of capital, and this capital, machinery and labor depend for five-sevenths of its employment upon the slave States ...

When the American Civil War (1861–1865) led to a global cotton shortage ... The trans-Saharan slave trade was distinct from its transatlantic cousin which relied mainly on slaves from western and ...

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer as the source for this wrenching silent work.

Slavery was one of the cornerstones of European colonization across the Americas. The first slaves – 20 Africans - arrived on a Dutch ship around1619 to the Virginia colony at Jamestown.

Modern slavery, like slavery seen in the transatlantic trade, is the holding of someone ... The service can be for a range of reasons, including picking cotton and cutting sugar cane as seen ...

The cotton used was mostly imported from slave plantations. Slavery provided the raw material for industrial change and growth. The growth of the Atlantic economy was an integral part of the ...

the system of slavery - the mass enforced labour, subjugation and torture of people taken from Africa and the descendants of those people - was partly fuelled by the global cotton trade.