The miners and railroad boys of Birmingham, Ala., entertained me one evening some months ago with a graphic description of the conditions among the slaves of the Southern cotton mills. While I ...

LOWELL — In the mid-19th century, Lowell’s cotton mills were heavily dependent on Southern cotton. But many of the city’s mill workers, religious leaders and at least one Boott Mill overseer were ...

IN the remarkable economic development of the Southern States during the last thirty years, the textile industry easily leads the rest both in the amount of capital invested — fully twenty per cent of ...

Last month, a group of people devoted to the cotton mills of yore held a news conference in Kannapolis, N.C., and announced the start of a grass-roots effort to capture the stories of mill villages ...

THERE are many men from the Northern and Northwestern States in Texas, and a large proportion of those with whom I talked complained bitterly of being “disappointed with the country ; ” but most of ...

Over the past decade, the Southern cotton mills have grown rapidly in proportion to the older New England industry. Under existing conditions many advantages to the South lay in this steadily growing ...

The O'Connell Organization is a family owned and operated real estate development business with over 150 properties in New York State. A trip to the Red Hook Fairway may be your excuse to visit the ...

Only a thin plaster partition in a Danville, Va. hotel one day last week separated the persons of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Harrison Robertson Fitzgerald, ...

In April 1854, a three-masted schooner, the Kate Brigham, set sail from New Orleans loaded with 150 bales of cotton grown by slaves on Southern plantations. The cotton shipment was one of many ...