Cotton | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/cotton/RSS feed for CottonenTue, 17 Dec 2024 19:09:25 +0000Archaeologists Discover Lost Burial Site of Enslaved People on President Andrew Jackson's Tennessee Plantationhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-lost-burial-site-of-enslaved-people-on-president-andrew-jacksons-tennessee-plantation-180985671/An estimated 28 probable graves were identified at the seventh American president's former property, called the HermitageTue, 17 Dec 2024 19:09:25 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-lost-burial-site-of-enslaved-people-on-president-andrew-jacksons-tennessee-plantation-180985671/How 'Blackbirders' Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil Warhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-blackbirders-forced-tens-of-thousands-of-pacific-islanders-into-slavery-after-the-civil-war-180985567/The decline of the American South's cotton and sugar industries paved the way for plantations in British-controlled Fiji and Australia, where victims of "blackbirding" endured horrific working conditionsThu, 05 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-blackbirders-forced-tens-of-thousands-of-pacific-islanders-into-slavery-after-the-civil-war-180985567/This May Be the Earliest Known Image of Enslaved Individuals With Cottonhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/may-be-earliest-known-image-slaves-cotton-180973705/A remarkable daguerreotype was recently acquired by the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas CityFri, 06 Dec 2019 21:47:37 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/may-be-earliest-known-image-slaves-cotton-180973705/Hundreds of Newly Found Poems Reveal the Devastation of the U.K.’s ‘Cotton Famine’https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hundreds-newly-found-poems-reveal-devastation-uks-cotton-famine-180969966/When the American Civil War crippled England’s cotton industry, impoverished workers turned to poetry to convey their plightMon, 13 Aug 2018 19:11:05 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hundreds-newly-found-poems-reveal-devastation-uks-cotton-famine-180969966/How Industrial Espionage Started America's Cotton Revolutionhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-industrial-espionage-started-americas-cotton-revolution-180967608/To the British, Samuel Slater was ‘Slater the traitor,’ but to the Americans, he was the father of the American industrial revolutionWed, 20 Dec 2017 19:37:06 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-industrial-espionage-started-americas-cotton-revolution-180967608/