An Emmy Award-winning black journalist accused PIX11 of treating her like a “slave” on a “plantation” before she was fired ...

to get a racist text Wednesday telling her she had been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation” and referring to “executive slave catchers,” she told CNN. “I thought it was ...

Ojinika Obiekwe, 46, had been employed at New York based network PIX11 after rising through the ranks to be their on-air ...

A pair of nearly identical photographs for viewing the depicted image in three dimensions with a stereograph viewer. Ten Black people – men, women, and one child – pick cotton in a waist-high field.

Also recommended are materials (maps, videos, etc.) that show the importance of geography and climate to the growing and transportation of cotton. Good primary sources include the writings of mill ...

Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the South, banks in the North, shipping merchants, and the textile industry in Great Britain.

This success of this plantation crop made it much more difficult for slaves to purchase their freedom or obtain it through the good will of their masters. Cotton became the foundation for the ...

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 ...