Image: Advertisement for S. Hopkins Jr.'s plantation clothing from Cohen's New Orleans Directory for 185 New Orleans: Office of the Picayune, 1855 THNOC, 59-4-L.2

Note: We know that many enslaved Black people on some farms and plantations made their own clothes.
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Narrative source: Whitney Plantation FB page Friday June 10, 2022

The slave trade produced enormous wealth for a variety of industries and businesses.
While plantation owners, traders, and brokers had direct ties to the slave trade, other industries such as hospitals for treating enslaved men and women, banks that provided the financing, and even clothing manufacturers also profited from the sale of men, women, and children.
(And insurance companies brought a mass amount of money into their accounts by selling insurance on enslaved Black people. Some of those companies are still in business today.)

According to The Historic New Orleans Collection, "During the early stages of ready-to-wear clothing, companies such as Brooks Brothers and S. Hopkins Jr. supplied "plantation clothing" to planters and cheaply made suits, top hats, head wraps, and dresses to auction houses eager to spruce up their human wares."