To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South. That’s two and a half times the number that were brought to the United States from Africa.

The Chinese government's chief spokesperson has compared Uyghur cotton pickers in Xinjiang to plantation workers in the American Deep South as Beijing sought to accuse the U.S. of hypocrisy on ...

Cotton fields and gins were dormant in much of the South for decades. It was only after the U.S. Department of Agriculture eradicated the boll weevil in 1978 that cotton begin to pick up in many ...

Cotton was 'king' in the plantation economy of the Deep South. The cotton economy had close ties to the Northern banking industry, New England textile factories and the economy of Great Britain.

In some sense, I chose to live in the Deep South not in spite of its racial past but because of it. The racial wounds are apparent here, and they help me see this nation for what it truly is.

“‘Nothin’ but de Cotton:’ Enslaved Life and Labor in the Deep South,” a lecture by Daina Ramey Berry, associate professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin; 6 p.m. Nov. 5 ...

Native sun: In the Deep South, a solar farm rises on a former cotton plantation ... My mom grew up picking cotton as a sharecropper, and her family were sharecroppers, 13 in total, ...

As recorded in “Alabama: The History of a Deep South State,” a British visitor to Mobile in 1858 said the people lived in “cotton houses and ride in cotton carriages.

Garment-making once thrived in the South. Two acclaimed designers are trying to bring it back with a field-to-garment concept, creating a clothing line from their own organic cotton grown in Alabama.

Some folks say Florida isn’t part of “the Deep South.” Linda A.B. Davis considers that situation. ... We still grow cotton, but it’s not the predominant crop here that it was then.

While some farmers are breathing a sigh of relief after Hurricane Idalia’s pass through the state, others in deep South Georgia were left with fields of mangled cotton, hundreds of downed trees ...