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.

Now residing in Palm Coast, "he's a dedicated family man, marathoner, and long-distance cyclist," the press release states.

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 ...