It said slaves were often expected to pick 200 pounds of cotton a day ... in the heat of Alabama’s sunlight all day in the cotton field — as their white employers stood by and watched.

Strikers marched on Main Street as a result, and a standoff with police began. Officers used clubs and mace on the protestors ...

Responding to his interlocutors in NLR’s symposium, Blackburn foregrounds the contradictions of capital and political rule in the Atlantic slave systems that opened space for class struggle.

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The 400 acres of land along South Carolina Highway 61 was acquired in the late 17th century. It was home to the Drayton ...

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The Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except for those convicted ... also made to work as farm laborers, picking lemons, potatoes, and cotton in California, Idaho, and Texas, among ...

The museum sits on the site of a cotton warehouse where enslaved ... were transported in chains to the slave market. Many, many thousands toiled in fields and factories up and down the Alabama ...

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Tyronda Boone created the documentary, “Generational Wealth-Triumphs and Tribulations” in 2023 with a purpose in mind. “I ...

An Emmy Award-winning black journalist accused PIX11 of treating her like a “slave” on a “plantation ... left for me to do at this point is pick cotton,” she would say at work, discussing ...

He further claimed Cotton "is working behind the scenes to stop Trump’s pick, Elbridge Colby, from getting confirmed at DOD." "Colby is one of the most important pieces to stop the Bush/Cheney ...