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Authorities across the country are investigating racist text messages sent to cellphones in multiple cities prompting owners to "pick cotton" at "plantations ... James and Louisiana's Liz ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations.

With the gin (short for engine), raw cotton could be quickly cleaned ... American-born slaves were torn from the plantations they had known all their lives, placed in shackles and force-marched ...

The demand for slaves to labor on southern cotton plantations made kidnapping of free persons a common practice.