Corporation · est. 1823
The Lowell Textile Mills
New England's great textile mills ran on slave-grown cotton and clothed the enslaved.
← Follow the MoneyThe mills of Lowell, Massachusetts turned slave-grown Southern cotton into cloth — including the cheap "negro cloth" sold back to plantations to clothe enslaved people. The "lords of the loom" were bound to the "lords of the lash."
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- profited from·ThreadChattel Slavery
Lowell's mills ran on slave-grown cotton.