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SCOUT· 37%37m·2026-08-07·Arts Culture100 Objects #12: "Negro Cloth"
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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 plantations. Roman Mars and historian Seth Rockman trace the strange life of so-called "Negro cloth" — a textile category defined by nothing but who it was worn by. Along…
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