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CHILD LABOR IN NORTH CAROLINA'S TEXTILE MILLS From the University of North Carolina Libraries : “Labor” was not a new concept to...

In a Southern Cotton Mill: By Elbert Hubbard I THOUGHT to lift one of the little toilers to ascertain his weight. Through his thirty-five po...

Charlie Pride One of 11 siblings born into a poor, Mississippi-based sharecropping family, Charley Pride was raised on a cotton farm, where ...

From the USA Toda y: INDIANOLA, Miss. — B.B. King's fingers were lightning fast, too smooth to be described as machinelike. His peers, ...

When master was first married he lived with old Mrs. Singleton, his wife's mother, and took care of her plantation. In rainy weather t...