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    Morris–Jumel Mansion

    Historic house in Manhattan, New York

    United States historic place

    Morris–Jumel Mansion

    U.S. National Register of Historic Places

    U.S. National Historic Landmark

    U.S. Historic district
    Contributing property

    New York State Register of Historic Places

    New York City Landmark No. 0308, 0888

    The front facade in 2014

    Location65 Jumel Terrace
    in Roger Morris Park, bounded by West 160th Street, Jumel Terrace, West 162nd Street, and Edgecombe Avenue
    Washington Heights, Manhattan
    New York City
    Coordinates40°50′04″N73°56′19″W / 40.83444°N 73.93861°W / 40.83444; -73.93861
    Built1765,[1] remodeled c. 1810[2]
    Architectural stylePalladian, Georgian, and Federal
    Part ofJumel Terrace Historic District (ID73001220)
    NRHP reference No.66000545[1]
    NYSRHP No.06101.001801[4]
    NYCL No.0308, 0888
    Added to NRHPOctober 15, 1966[1]
    Designated NHLJanuary 20, 1961[3]
    Designated CPApril 3, 1973[7]
    Designated NYSRHPJune 23, 1980[4]
    Designated NYCLexterior: July 12, 1967[5]
    interior: May 27, 1975[6

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    The Cecil Hotel, on the seafront of Alexandria, Egypt, in the nineteen-thirties.Photograph from Library of Congress

    Traders were delighted by the quality of Egyptian cotton, and flocked to Alexandria, which was populated largely by wealthy foreigners. Two years before the Egyptian monarchy was forced out, in 1952, only two of the thirty-five registered cotton brokers at the Alexandria stock exchange were Egyptian. As the cotton trade made landowners and foreign traders rich, it impoverished countless Egyptians. Egyptian cotton continues to be picked by hand, to protect the cotton clumps from injury. “It explains child labor,” Mona Abaza, a professor at the American University in Cairo, whose family amassed great wealth through cotton, told Smithsonian. “It was very exploitative and is hard to look back at with any sentimentality.” The school year has historically started after the harvest season, to encourage attendance.

    Cotton-textile production is long, complex, and riddled with opportunities for tampering. After it is harvested, cotton is ginned, spun, then woven into fabrics at different facilities, often in different countries. Cheating can start right in the cotton fields, MeiLin Wan, a textile expert at Applied DNA, told me. “I’ve heard stories of how, in the midd