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Materials
The Dark Side of the Boom
A machine built by a 27-year-old tutor made cotton cleaning 50 times faster — and instead of reducing the need for enslaved labor, it made slavery more profitable than ever.
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Cotton as Resistance
In 1921, Gandhi organized the public burning of 150,000 pieces of British-made cloth in Mumbai — turning the same fiber that built an empire into the tool that helped end one.
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Cotton, Today
China and India now grow roughly half the world's cotton between them. Seven thousand years after Mehrgarh, the same fiber still clothes nearly half the planet — and still raises the same questions.
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