Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton ... the second largest forced migration in America’s history. To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African ...

Located north of Huntsville, a few miles from the Tennessee line, are the remains of an old whistle-stop town.

A cotton gin in Dawson County marked a major milestone this year, catching the owner by surprise. It wasn’t until after some ...

His cotton gin also made the mass production of cotton possible ... (Fields’ estranged wife and son used that clause to ...

UPDATE: This story has been updated with comments from the family’s attorney. When a 13-year-old came home from school and showed her mother the bag of cotton she had received from a teacher ...

When a 13-year-old came home from school and showed her mother the bag of cotton she had received from a teacher, her mother ...