He was one of 11 children in a sharecropper family on a cotton plantation.

From the 1830s to 1860 the land around the lake was home to a few cotton plantations.

Nearly the entire island was cleared of trees to make way for several cotton plantations.

The area was long a center of cotton plantations and related agriculture.

Settlers also came, looking for land on which to establish cotton plantations.

He spent three years in Louisiana associated with a cotton plantation.

The town relies on trade from the cotton plantations for its economy.

In the nineteenth century, cotton plantations were developed along the river.

In the nineteenth century, it was developed for cotton plantations.

The majority of slaves in the deep South, men and women, worked on cotton plantations.