Andrew’s Reviews > The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World > Status Update

came in wanting to learn about how people created textiles.
halfway through first chapter
find out that from the beginning the cotton plant grown and picked by slaves where.
stolen from mexico in the early 1800s
the guy who stole them was sent by a friend of aaron burr (yes him) to get money to start their own country
smuggled the seeds in a doll
died penniless
further exacerbated western expansion and the civil war