Wild cotton plants on North Caicos Turks & Caicos Islands

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Cotton Plant found growing wild in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The agricultural industry sprung up in the islands in the late 1780s after 40 Loyalists arrived after the end of the American Revolution, primarily from Georgia and South Carolina. Granted large tracts of land by the British government to make up for what they lost in the American colonies, the Loyalists imported well over a thousand slaves and planted vast fields of sizal and cotton. Wikipedia
Cotton Plant found growing wild on North Caicos in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The agricultural industry sprung up in the islands in the late 1780s after 40 Loyalists arrived after the end of the American Revolution, primarily from Georgia and South Carolina. Granted large tracts of land by the British government to make up for what they lost in the American colonies, the Loyalists imported well over a thousand slaves and planted vast fields of sizal and cotton. Wikipedia

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