cotton growing

Presents landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted's firsthand observations of the U.S.'s slave states made when he was a correspondent for the "New York Times" in the 1850s, in which he describes the plantation system, slaves' and masters' daily lives, and the effects of slavery on all social classes.

Read about the importance of cotton in America's history and learn about the lives of people who picked it and worked with it.

LevelJ.

Presents an overview of the history of the cotton industry in the United States, from colonial times to the mid-twentieth century.

Discusses the growing and ginning of cotton and the making of it into textiles, clothes, food, and other products.

Briefly describes how cotton is grown, the pests and diseases that threaten it, and how it is processed into various types of fabrics.