"Cotton’s destructive dependence on chemicals and on extraction of lives and resources was animated and enabled by anti-Blackness, which sanctioned a systematic hostility to life that encoded environmental violence in plantation landscapes from the seed to the root."
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https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/14/3/499/319763/Cotton-Whiteness-and-Other-Poisons