STARKVILLE — In the interest of not “burying the lead,” let me note that although she never set foot in the state of Mississippi or cast her eyes on the alluvial fan of the mythical and mystic ...

If ever a farm had secrets, Prospect Hill is the keeper of ghosts. The former Mississippi cotton plantation conceals one of the most astonishing, surreal and forgotten stories in American history.

RICHTON — Mississippi cotton farmers are losing money — and some are preparing to abandon the crop altogether due to falling prices, extreme weather events, rising input costs and trade tensions.

A blazing sun beat down one day last week on the Mississippi delta cotton fields as hundreds of white-shirted, straw-hatted plantation owners, managers, ginners, dealers, bankers, scientists and ...

Introduction : cotton, sugar, coffee, and the making of nineteenth-century slave plantations -- Part i. Making landscapes : new Atlantic commodity frontiers -- The lower Mississippi Valley cotton ...