Answer:
I am bought by the yard but worn by the foot
I have hands but cannot clap
Ripped from my ancestors home beaten and burned I become a bloodthirsty killer.
What can you catch but not throw?
I hold two people together but touch only one. What am I?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.