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Negro Cloth - Linking North and South.m4aPlantation owners purchased cheap, poor-quality textiles known as “negro cloth” (pictured here) in large quantities to clothe their enslaved people. In many parts of the country these textiles became known as “Lowell cloth,” since a substantial amount of such cloth was manufactured in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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"$20 REWARD will be given for the apprehension of the negro boy RICHARD, aged about 32 years, 5 feet 10 inches high, slim, with very bad broken teeth; had on him when he left a black and white cross bar negro pantaloons, a checked shirt and straw hat, but carried away with him a full suit of negro blue cloth clothes.
C. Moore
D12-6t* 24 Levee between Hospital and Barracks sts."
Image: Lowell National Historical Park. Document: “$20 Reward,” The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), Dec. 19, 1846. Freedomonthemove.org.
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