Life on The Southside In the southern United States cotton has been king for a couple of centuries. In the early days of the cotton plantations there were black slaves that tilled the land planted and raised the cotton until it was ready to be harvested by them. The practice of slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War and there was a large number of blacks without work, education or any way …showed first 75 words of 1151 total…

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