Cotton, once even hailed as "white gold," is rapidly declining in value. In colonized countries, cotton, which is in high demand and generates enormous wealth, has been forcibly and...

Countries that had been colonies of Western powers also began independence movements one after another, including Haiti, which became the first non-white nation to break away...

※Slavery and Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States Slavery ensured and bred a large labor force to grow cotton and export it to Europe. Meanwhile, in the northern United States, the...

Many were sent from West Africa to the American South via England. There, they grew cotton and increased their exports to Europe. As cotton clothing became more affordable in Europe, the concept of fashion (mode) on an industrial scale gradually became popular...