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SHA’MIRA COVINGTON on Healing the Fashion Industrial Complex /265

For The Wild

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The History of Cotton in the Us

i encourage listeners to explore a slow factory's course, a history of cotton instructed by you and teju adisa ferar. To fully understand cotton from a historical perspective, both european colonization in the americas and african enslavement must be contextualized. For example, chattel slavery was primarily used for cotton production, meaning that human beings were treated as property,. sometimes worked to death, and were grossly beaten and mistreated in the pursuit of cotton. So there's all of these, a these hidden this hidden history, this hidden knowledge around cotton. The true history of theof the fibre.

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