: While largely associated with the pirate John Rackham, the name was also used by an enslaved man who escaped his master in 1694 to join a ship bound for Madagascar.
: Certain South Carolina slave codes explicitly banned enslaved people from wearing high-value apparel, but permitted cheaper textiles including "blue linen, check linen... or calicoes". calico slave
: Some enslavers used small amounts of calico as a form of "encouragement"; for example, one 1835 record describes a merchant being asked for "cheap calico" to be given to women after childbirth. : While largely associated with the pirate John