100 Objects #12: "Negro Cloth"

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100 Objects #12: "Negro Cloth"

100 Objects #12: "Negro Cloth"

Aug 7, 202637m
0:0037:50

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In 1821, two Rhode Island brothers went looking for buyers for their woolen fabric, and stumbled into a lucrative, captive market: Southern slave plan

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