Sears was Amazon.com first, they are indirectly responsible for the creation of the Delta Blues, and their Kenmore sewing machines can give Singer a run for its money… and win. It’s time for a deep dive into the history of how sewing machines exist inside the larger story of American capitalism.


https://www.npr.org/2018/10/16/657923126/how-the-sears-catalog-was-revolutionary-in-the-jim-crow-era 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270301038_Jumpin'_Jim_Crow_Southern_Politics_from_Civil_War_to_Civil_Rights 

https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2018/10/16/sears-radical-past-how-mail-order-catalogs-subverted-racial-hierarchy-of-jim-crow/9543787007/ 

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/monograph/book/31560

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