Ten Black people – men, women, and one child – pick cotton in a waist-high field. The women wear gingham dresses and kerchiefs, the men wear white shirts and felt hats, and all are facing toward the ...

The true history of the lynching that begat the civil rights movement began with the Mississippi gubernatorial election that ...

Consider the tattered state of Old King Cotton. To perpetuate 200,000 politically potent but economically inefficient small cotton farmers in the Southeast, the Government supports cotton prices ...

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True, a bevy of noted writers passed through the area in her time, taking advantage of owner Cammie Henry's writers and artists colony at Melrose Plantation ... wash day, cotton picking and ...

Isn't it true, Zandrine ... the sun was just sinking. Out in the still fields the negroes were picking cotton. Desiree had not changed the thin white garment nor the slippers which she wore.

There are around 1.5 million descendants of plantation workers living in Sri Lanka today, including about 3.5% of the electorate, and some 470,000 people still live on plantations. The plantation ...

but the fact is that given a choice between a) picking ... still aren’t making BMWs in Rwanda. Some race to the bottom. Beyond the shopworn banality of his prose (“the catfish farms and the ...