Ten Lost Loves

Product Details

• 100% premium cotton

• Front embroidery — clean cursive title text

• Back print — museum‑grade archival artwork, precisely scaled at 11 inches wide

• Unisex fit

Ten Lost Loves reclaims one of the earliest racist children’s rhymes, exposing how childhood imagery was used to dehumanize Black boys. Before it was softened into later versions, the original rhyme reduced Black children to nameless figures counted down and erased.

What began as a minstrel‑era joke became a template for propaganda — teaching audiences to see young Black boys as replaceable or expendable. This piece interrupts that narrative, reminding us that the devaluing of Black life often begins in the stories given to children.

Perfect for Juneteenth and Black History observances, this design honors truth, memory, and liberation.