The Triangle Offense :::
The offense requires wide spacing: Slave ships: Slave ships: 14-
hour workday for sewing machine operators: $2 wage a day: Cuts
and screens: Garment workers are agitated: Necks connected by
wooden yokes: talk of unions, talk of unions: Auction block:
Angles and distances: Middle Passage: Geometry is an art of precision:
Pedal pump machine, 34 stitches a minute: Sugar plantation
sweetens the coffee plantation: Sprint through the lane:
Electric machines, 3000 stitches a minute: Post up: Buttonhole:
Buttonhole: Buttonhole: Filthy lucre: “If you look at our offense,
you’ll see we’re in equilateral triangles.”
The Triangular Slave trade :::
Tex Winter, the architect: Bodies of seamstresses strewn: On
sidewalks: On the gangplank: Read the defense, react to the
defender: teenage girls: Immigrant girls: Export of goods:
Export of African bodies: Export of products: March 25, 1911:
top 3 floors: 10-storey Asch Building: Sir John Hawkins: Maafa:
Post player: Perimeter players: Diagrams: Forcibly embarked: 4
continents: 4 centuries: Approximately 12 million: Discarded
rags: Fire!: Wing pass: Weak-side: Ports: Ports: Ports: “I saw my
girls, my pretty ones, going down through the air. they hit the
sidewalk spread out and still.”
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire :::
Three-legged route: 145 employees: Extraction and exchange:
Extraction and exchange: Wing denial: Ball reversal: Separate the
seed without destroying the fiber: “Bodies burned to bare bones,
skeletons bending over sewing machines”: Men slaughtered:
Manslaughter: Elbow-extended area: Dribble-drive: Held below
deck: the locked door: $75 per life lost: Lost at sea: Loss:
Endemic gastrointestinal diseases: Epidemic pathogens: Safety
and working conditions: X’s and O’s: X’s stitched on the eyes:
Private exits: Forced movement: “The turning of Africa into a
warren for the commercial hunting of black skins.”