In search of slave clothes: A museum director’s hunt for a painful symbol

In search of slave clothes: A museum director’s hunt for a painful symbol

The fantasy find for historian Lonnie G. Bunch III includes a tattered pair of pantaloons made of that old “Negro cloth” and a coarse linen shirt that all but disintegrated on the back of its enslaved owner. Maybe a thrashed pair of brogans, too, worn around the plantation until the soles fell off. “Slave clothing,” Bunch [...]

In search of slave clothes: A museum director’s hunt for a painful symbol
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Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:32:18 GMT