Old images of African Americans picking cotton remind many of the oppression ... Tillery said that he sometimes gets remarks from people who wonder how, as a Black man, he could be a cotton ...

Dozens of Black people across the U.S. have reported receiving alarming text messages claiming they were “selected” to pick cotton at the nearest plantation. The messages, which appeared just ...

In them, the messenger tells them they’ve been “selected to pick cotton.” The texts went out to Black people before and after Election Day across the country: Greetings! You have been ...

In January 1800, free black people in Philadelphia petitioned Congress to end the trade. In the meantime, though, the cotton boom spurred slaves imported from Africa: 20,000 came to Georgia and ...