The Delta plantation system started in the ... leaving the South en masse and the unstable price of cotton during wartime, Mississippi planters and white businessmen worried about their economic ...

such as Mississippi and Alabama. Cotton cultivation was pushing west, into the new southern territories, and plantation owners were desperate for slaves to work the crops. This selection is taken ...

Frogmore Plantation, located outside Vidalia, Louisiana, and Rosemont, the boyhood home of Jefferson Davis in Woodville, have joined the Natchez Garden Club Spring Pilgrimage. Natchez Garden Club is ...