Woven histories of Welsh wool and slavery

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BLUE: The TATTER Textile Library

Name/Title

Woven histories of Welsh wool and slavery

Description

Woven Histories of Welsh Wool and Slavery calls attention to the colonial history of the Welsh woollen industry. Made in collaboration with Cardiff University and Coleg Menai, this free e-book aims to improve public knowledge of the ways local histories of woollen production in Wales are implicated in broader global histories of Atlantic slavery and empire. Wool, alongside (and eventually overtaken by) cotton, became the global textile industry of the eighteenth century. British merchants used the cloth to purchase and trade in African captives who were kidnapped to work on plantations in the Americas in the transatlantic slave trade. Plantation owners in the Caribbean and US South used the hand-woven woollen textile to clothe the enslaved labourers.

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Search Terms

enslaved persons, slavery, weaving--history--wales, wool industry--wales

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Category

Electronic Book

Book Details

Editor

Charlotte Hammond, Laura Moseley

Illustrator

Chloe Buckless, Anne Butler, Jessica Chun, Seren Haf Williams-Davies, Elin Roberts, Kimberly Sanchez, Rosie Wainwright

Publication Translator

Elin Meek

Publisher

Common Threads Press

Date Published

2023

Publication Language

English, Welsh

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Full text from Common Threads Press.