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.

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A cotton gin in Dawson County marked a major milestone this ... For him, this is just another chapter in his family’s deeply rooted history here. His ancestors lived in Texas ...

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 ...

Play “Cotton Gin” for the class ... Tell students that an important part of viewing history in the context of causality is determining which events are directly related, and which are not.

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 ...