On December 30, 1900, advisors from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, the college run by Booker T. Washington, arrived in Togo to help the German colonialists institute a southern-style cotton regime in their African colony. This moment demonstrates the globalized nature of the American cotton production...
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This is the grave of Frederick Douglas Patterson. Born in 1901 in Washington, D.C., Patterson was named for the great black leader Frederick Douglass. But he had a tough early.