In 1851 the school bought a six-acre farm and pupils were taught to raise cotton.

He certainly hadn't agreed with the plantation owners who raised cotton and tobacco.

In those early years the church raised cotton and farmed to supplement its income.

"Most residents were farmers who raised corn, wheat, cotton and livestock."

In earlier times, the inland area of the Piedmont was dominated by large plantations which raised cotton.

The big farms, the farms that raised cotton and tobacco and grain, seemed to get on fine without them.

The couple raised cotton on land given to them by Evelyn's father and barely made a living.

They may have raised cotton as well, and gathered fruits, berries, nuts and other foods locally.

He raised cotton on somebody else's land in a county where everybody was poor, regardless of race or anything else.

In the early colonial south, raising tobacco and cotton was common, especially through the use of slave labor until the Civil War.