Black Bodies, White GoldIn Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpretations of the way art, commerce, and colonialism were intertwined in the nineteenth century Atlantic world. In doing so, Arabindan Kesson models an art historical approach that makes the histories of the Black diaspora central to nineteenth century cultural production. She traces the emergence of a