Johnston, describes the bounties of the new cotton lands. Norcom had migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi. He writes to Johnston, a North Carolina plantation owner, telling him of the ...

The Gullah Geechee are the descendants of Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo and Sea Island cotton plantations of the lower Atlantic coast. Along with their unique Creole language ...

Cotton growers are facing devastating losses and delays from Hurricane Helene just as harvest was beginning, marking the ...

Excerpts from the 1863 publication by Mortimer Thomson, What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia ... woods of North Carolina, their brothers and sisters be scattered through the cotton fields ...

Poplar Grove Plantation, a former peanut and sweet ... Cornelius Harnett after his last journey from Philadelphia to North Carolina in January 1780. Harnett's widow Mary Holt Harnett, who ...

PITT COUNTY, N.C. (WNCT) — The Town of Fountain will have construction work starting on Monday. The work focuses on ...

In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life ...

Elected commissioners of a Georgia county are asking a judge to cancel a special election that challenges zoning changes to a ...

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 ...

When the family began occupying the Kingsley Plantation in 1814, Anna helped manage a workforce of roughly 60 enslaved people, who produced Sea Island cotton, citrus fruit, sugarcane and corn on ...

The McLeod Plantation Historic Site on James Island ... Related Post: I ran across an old family cemetery in North Carolina ...

Nearby, the Cotton Exchange on Front Street has a cluster of 30 ... The on-site museum makes this a year-round and rainy-day option for visitors. This North Carolina plantation is about a 20-minute ...