A little closer to home, we have some distinct ties with the slave trade here in Paisley, Cotton street, Charleston, etc . We also have a statue of Mr Coates who at one point owned the largest thread company in the world. Although distanced from the raw commodity of cotton, he and the people of Paisley benefited hugely from the cotton industry.
( fact check) I haven’t researched this post fully, he may have sourced cotton from Egypt, as there is an area just behind the old RAI called Egypt Park on old maps which may be a link to the cotton trade.