User:Orlady/Negro cloth

Negro cloth is a low-quality woolen or cotton cloth that was used historically for the clothing of African American slaves.

http://www.africanaheritage.com/Edward_Ball_Excerpt.asp

http://ugrrquilt.hartcottagequilts.com/rr5.htm - likens it to osnaburg

For the Sake of Commerce: Slavery, Antislavery, and Northern Industry

http://history.research.glam.ac.uk/projects/negro-cloth/ - "Negro Cloth": a Welsh contribution to Atlantic slavery

http://www.nps.gov/ethnography/aah/aaheritage/lowCountryC.htm

Textile firm linked to 'Negro cloth' for slaves, USA Today, February 21, 2002

http://books.google.com/books?id=iU8GyhJ1veEC&pg=PA352&dq=negro+cloth

http://books.google.com/books?id=1X5D8FHBnHQC&pg=PA158

http://books.google.com/books?id=QTLl5wSQfaQC&pg=PA242 - Text of the South Carolina law on the type of clothing allowed for slaves

Cabin for African-American Experience Exhibit

American negro slave revolts By Herbert Aptheker

Slave counterpoint: Black culture in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry By Philip D. Morgan. 1998. (Mentions colors, including blue and white -- apparently related to identifying runaway slaves -- and boots made from negro cloth.)

http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abestwa9t.html - American Slavery As It Is Theodore Weld New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839. From TESTIMONY OF REUBEN G. MACY. (“During the winter of 1818 and 19, I resided on an island near the mouth of the Savannah river, on the South Carolina side. Most of the slaves that came under my particular notice, belonged to a widow and her daughter, in whose family I lived." Their clothing consisted of a pair of trowsers and jacket, made of whitish woollen cloth called negro cloth. The women had nothing but a petticoat, and a very short short-gown, made of the same kind of cloth. Some of the women had an old pair of shoes, but they generally went barefoot.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18940799/Eighteenth-century-Chesapeake-clothing-A-costume-plan-for-the-National-Colonial-Farm -- relevant pages not included in free view