This column continues with the story of Dr. John Martin Taylor (1819-1884) and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Robertson Rives Taylor (1824-1868). The Taylors owned a palatial 18-room brick mansion called ...

Arkansas does not have many antebellum mansions, but among the survivors is Lakeport Plantation located near Lake Village in Chicot County. Over the holidays I had the opportunity to visit the site ...

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COTTON PLANTERS MANUAL: BEING A COMPILATION OF FACTS FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES ON THE CULTURE OF COTTON ITS NATURAL HISTORY CHEMICAL ANALYSIS TRADE AND CONSUMPTION AND EMBRACING A HISTORY OF COTTON ...

Earlier this year the Arkansas Historical Quarterly published a fascinating article on one of the most remarkable women in antebellum Arkansas, Amanda Beardsley Trulock of Jefferson County. Written by ...

Chronic complaint of every southern cotton planter: his inability to keep Negroes working steadily on his place. He advances money for food and clothing to his black hands, only to have them run away ...

Reporting from Kings County, Calif. — King Cotton is back. More than a decade after the state’s “white gold” crop started losing its luster, booming commodity prices have farmers cashing in on growing ...

Sven Beckert is professor of American history at Harvard and author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History, just published by Alfred A. Knopf. The American Civil War is one of the best-researched ...

In the deep South last week, boll weevils began to stir for their attack upon the 1930 cotton crop. From ground cracks, from old cotton stalks, from patches of dead grass and weeds, the continental ...

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