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This May Be the Earliest Known Image of Enslaved Individuals With Cotton
A remarkable daguerreotype was recently acquired by the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City
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Hundreds of Newly Found Poems Reveal the Devastation of the U.K.’s ‘Cotton Famine’
When the American Civil War crippled England’s cotton industry, impoverished workers turned to poetry to convey their plight
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How Industrial Espionage Started America's Cotton Revolution
To the British, Samuel Slater was ‘Slater the traitor,’ but to the Americans, he was the father of the American industrial revolution
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