Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the South ... making fertile land in the Deep South, from Georgia to Texas, extraordinarily valuable.

Like countless other residents of the deep American South, Jason MacDonald and Timothy Gipson, living in Brookhaven, ...

To escape the deep South and make it North to New York ... slave catchers or civilian lynch mobs. Plantation owners whose slaves ran away frequently placed runway slave advertisements in local ...