Students (grades 5 - 8) "become" a boll of cotton. After researching U. S. geography and history from the earliest days of the American Industrial Revolution up to the Civil War, they relate ...

for further details. While the initiative promises economic benefits, it also compels a reckoning with Barbados’s fraught history of cotton production. Historically, the cultivation of cotton ...

BATH, England — Cotton, a material imbued with a long and brutal racialized history, forms part of the enmeshment of Western European wealth, architecture, and art with Black histories and cultures.

A fine bronze memorial shaped like a large bobbin commemorates this history at High Dam but not the world connections with American cotton production and the Slave Trade. Our bobbin connects us ...