Negro cloth

[6] South Carolina's Negro Act of 1735 had various cheap materials dictated for slave clothes that include ''Negro cloth, duffelds, course kiersies, osnaburg, blue linen, checked linen, coarse calicoes and checked kinds of cotton''.

[7][8][9][10] Negro cloth was a woven material made of cotton or blended coarse threads also homespun.

[15][16][17] ''Guinea cloth'' was a generic term for various inferior Indian piece goods traded for the purpose,[18] such as inexpensive dyed plain and patterned calicoes like stripes and checks.

Those freed from slavery recalled the cloth feeling akin to "needles sticking one all the time.

"[4][21] The cloth was converted into various garments, such as breeches, jackets, skirts,[6] bodices, shirts and trousers.