1. Old Savannah Cotton Exchange Historical Marker - UNF Digital Commons Link

2. Clay, Edward Williams, Artist, and Arthur Donnelly. America / E.W.C. Southern States, ca. 1841. [New York: Publ. by A. Donnelly, no. 19 1/2 Courtland St., N.Y] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003690759/.

3. Child's "slave cloth" sleeveless jacket and pants, unknown maker, Louisiana 1850's. Cotton; hand spun and woven. From the Collections of Shadows-on-the-Teche, a Site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, New Iberia, Louisiana, acc. NT59.67.644 (5B).

4. Turner, John. “Fourteen Dollars Reward.” Montreal, March 1784

5. Banks, James. “Ten Dollars Reward”

6. Bryan, Nicholas. “One Hundred Dollars Reward.

7. "Occupations of Savannah's Free African Americans, 1823." Lorenzo Dow Turner Papers, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution

8. Thrash, George. "Notice, Runaway" Columbus Enquirer, April 27, 1833.

9. "Cutting and Fitting" North Carolina Greensboro, 1899. [?] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/97510089/.

10. O'Sullivan, Timothy H, photographer. Five generations on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina. South Carolina Beaufort, 1862. [, Printed Later] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/98504449/.

11-15. Gootman, Frances "Cast Off" May 2020

To illustrate my connection with this topic, I have created a handmade woven artwork. My creative component presents what started out as a white cotton weaving that I then dyed with tea, and then combined it with a patchwork piece that I have made out of threadbare scraps. I utilized hand and machine stitch to represent the different makers. The once-white pristine cotton cloth has now been tattered, dyed, and embellished to create a new material, and signifies the cultural resilience exhibited by the African-American people through textiles