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Slavery’s ghost haunts cotton gin factory’s transformation

Construction crew members on a lift work on a once-abandoned cotton gin factory that is being renovated into apartments in Prattville, Ala., on Friday, Jan 28, 2022. The factory's history is tied up in slavery, and the project demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S. history. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) Deborah Taylor Robinson is shown during an interview at her home in Prattville, Ala., on Thursday, May 19, 2022. An antebellum abandoned cotton gin factory is being renovated into apartments in the city, and Robinson would like to have greater recognition for the enslaved people who helped make it into what was once the world's largest gin factory. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) A once-abandoned cotton gin factory that is being renovated into apartments stands beside Autauga Creek in Prattville, Ala., on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. The factory's history is tied up in slavery, and the project demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S. history. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) A construction crew member enters a once-abandoned cotton gin factory that is being renovated into apartments in Prattville, Ala., on Friday, Jan 28, 2022. The factory's history is tied up in slavery, and the project demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S. history. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) A man enters an old cotton gin factory that is being renovated into apartments in Prattville, Ala., on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. The project demonstrates the difficulty of telling complicated U.S. history in 2022. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)