Trecy Bleich Rice Stack Necklace Denim

$230.00 at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Handcrafted by jewelry artist Trecy Bleich, this bangle bracelet is part of her Rice collection, created to draw attention to a time in our history when women from West Africa were brought by involuntary migration to the developing United States specifically for their skill in rice cultivation.   These enslavers worked endlessly, by hand, the entire process of rice production in the Atlantic basin of Georgia and South Carolina. America benefited from their skills because the profits of rice brought great…