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Now wait just a cotton-pickin' minute
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"King Cotton" created a huge demand for land and (slave) labor that changed early America's borders, population, and economics. But just as cotton affected history, history affected cotton: the story of naturally colored cottons -- brown, green, yellow, mauve, and reddish cottons -- has almost been lost. Slaves in the American South, forbidden from planting white cotton lest they sell it for profit, grew this colored cotton in their gardens to spin their own clothes.
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Nibbles: Drugs, Cotton, Localsource, Bees, Sunflowers
http://agro.biodiver.se/2008/05/nibbles-drugs/Insights into Dutch cannabis breeding. Dude unavailable for comment. Cotton diversity link-fest. Head of World Food Programme on buying locally. US bee health: not good. Via. Australian sunflowers to improve US varieties; Luigi more confused than ever.
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