Dirt, peat moss, sugar cane, sugat cotton plastic, wood, flag, paper, plaster, bricks<br /><br />This Négritude island is a five-pointed black star, alluding to the Black Star Line, a shipping company incorporated by Marcus Garvey, and also to the line stars on the flags of Cuba and Puerto Rico. Cotton and sugar cane reference two of the earliest slave-grown commodities in the Americas. White handkerchiefs were used by slaves to cover their heads while working in the fields. White hankerchiefs are also used as symbols of adherence by practitioners of religions such as Candomblé, voodoo and Santería.

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