Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Daniel Minter, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky

Daniel Minter, Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond with Tashi Thomas (Narrator)

18 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction emotional informative lighthearted medium-paced
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And then there was indigo, which was so valuable that American plantations grew it as a cash crop on the backs of African slaves. It wasn't until 1905, when Adolf von Baeyer created a chemical blue dye, that blue could be used for anything and eve...

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