What made cotton so desirable ... s two and a half times the number that were brought to the United States from Africa. To learn more about the connection of cotton and slavery, tune in to ...

Benin has long vied with Mali for the title of Africa's largest cotton producer ... of Benin's President Patrice Talon -- who made his fortune from cotton in the 1990s and 2000s, earning him ...

This success of this plantation crop made it much more difficult ... In the meantime, though, the cotton boom spurred slaves imported from Africa: 20,000 came to Georgia and South Carolina in ...