Eli whitney cotton gin

When Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, it led to unprecedented growth in the cotton industry and the trade of enslaved people.

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The Cotton Gin revolutionized the cotton industry in America during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The Cotton gin sped up the extraction of cotton seeds from the fiber to such and extent that it could replace the work of fifty men or women doing the same work. This led to the cotton industry ... Read more

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Eli Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts

When Eli Whitney left New England and headed South in 1792, he had no idea that he would invent a machine that would change the history of America. After the invention of cotton gin the production of raw cotton doubled every decade and the demand was increasing by the other inventions of the industrial revolution...

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The cotton gin changed the 19th century US. Above is a short video explaining it and here is a cartoon graphic showing how it worked.