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Did you know enslaved people invented blue jeans? While Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis are credited with patenting blue jeans in 1873, the knowledge of indigo dyeing and the use of denim, a coarse fabric, came from enslaved people. Initially, Blue jeans were referred to as "Negro cloth," a racist term for the cheap, coarse fabric worn by enslaved people. The knowledge of indigo dyeing was exploited by plantation owners, who took advantage of the expertise of enslaved people. Seth Rockman, a history professor at Brown University, said in the PBS documentary Riveted: The History of Jeans: “Many African captives who became enslaved in the New World brought with them knowledge of how to extract the blue from the plant and how to fix the blue to fabrics. Indigo is one of how slaveholding became tied to the economic fortunes of the colonial experiment in the Americas.” Sources: The Philadelphia Tribune & Riveted: The History of Jeans

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