28 min listen
Cotton Capital: The Sea Islands – episode 3
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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Aug 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Revisited: In the third episode in the series, journalist DeNeen L Brown travels to the Sea Islands in the US and meets the Gullah Geechee people – direct descendants of enslaved Africans who picked the distinctive Sea Island cotton prized by traders in Manchester. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Released:
Aug 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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