Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a variety of appointments on Oct. 25, including naming farmer James L. Babb III, of ...
If he contributes in any degree toward rendering the North independent of the Southern cotton despotism, he will be sufficiently rewarded. The lecture this evening is suggested and promoted by ...
The study aimed to integrate cover crops and herbicide programs for effective weed control in southern cotton grown within a conservation system while maintaining cotton lint yield. Field experiments ...
which began in earnest in 1912 with the publication of a directive on the encouragement of cotton cultivation across the southern half of the peninsula. With its emphasis on the cultivation of upland ...
Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the southern economy and changing the dynamics of slavery. The first federal census of 1790 counted 697,897 slaves; by 1810, there were 1.2 ...