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Dangerous Plants - The Cost of Cotton: Slavery’s Legacy and its Environmental Fallout
Season 17 · Episode 6

Dangerous Plants - The Cost of Cotton: Slavery’s Legacy and its Environmental Fallout

With Francis Tophill, Cassandra Gooptar, and Inemesit Ukpanah

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

October 16, 202458m 27s

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Show Notes

How has cotton, a soft staple fibre, been dangerous for centuries - and continues to be so? Threatening human life, natural resources and biodiversity, the cotton plant has wreaked havoc over the years in the slave trade, farming and industry. Joining Frances are Dr Cassandra Gooptar, Lecturer in Legacies of Slavery at the University of Hull, and Environmental Sustainability expert Inemesit Ukpanah

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