Required: Materials that inform students about conditions in early textile mills (e.g., those in Lowell) and conditions on cotton-growing plantations prior to the Civil War. Also recommended are ...

Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the South ... extraordinarily valuable. Growing more cotton meant an increased demand for slaves.

Slavery took on new importance with a massive influx of slaves to the cotton-growing states in the lower ... most slaves lived on plantations with less than 50 slaves. They worked in gangs ...