The plantation stretches for 37 acres and features a dairy and kitchen area, a worship center, a cemetery, a cotton gin house ... from the grim realities of slavery nor try to cover up the ...

In Philadelphia, freedmen and fugitive slaves push the country to live up to the promises made in its Constitution. But with the invention of the cotton gin, slavery expands into America's western ...

At the mouth of all of the Gulf Coast rivers, small ports such as Pearlington, MS evolved supporting sawmills, boatyards, brickyards, cotton gins, taverns, and kilns producing naval stores (turpentine ...

Eli Whitney patented a new kind of cotton gin. His invention, using rotating brushes and teeth to remove the seeds from cotton, was quickly pirated by others. Southern plantation owners depended on ...

And he did, too. His cotton gin also made the mass production of cotton possible, which greatly increased the demand for ...

"Southern Voices," edited by Tom Mack and Drew Geyer, is an anthology of "sense of place" poems from Southern writers, including SC's Glenis Redmond, Ed Madden ...

The mother of two middle schoolers in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, says her daughters were subjected to racial ...

Walking through the older section of the historic Glenwood Cemetery, a tall gravestone with ornate design instantly captures ...

Photos are from Joey Hollingsworth’s personal collection. Photo with drum by Roy Kumano. Photo with sunglasses by Zahra McDoom. Joey Hollingsworth (b. 1936) is a tap dancer, creative force and one ...

The cotton gin was a revolutionary innovation ... The same invention intensified the savagery of slavery as cotton plantations expanded across the American South. • At the end of the nineteenth ...

Taken forcibly from Africa, trammeled in slavery for two and a half centuries ... such epochal inventions as the lightning rod, the cotton gin, the steamboat, the metal plow, the harvester ...