cotton

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Eli Whitney’s cotton gin expanded slavery across the Deep South.

From The Wall Street Journal

Like the men on the line, I pulled on white cotton gloves and, as the machine inched forward, began lifting watermelons from the ground, up onto the table above me where the packers waited.

From Los Angeles Times

Operating these new technologies were an army of young women clad in tailor-mades, or coordinating jackets and skirts, and easy-to-launder cotton shirtwaists, or blouses—all early triumphs of New York’s nascent ready-to-wear industry.

From The Wall Street Journal

With the 1793 invention of the cotton gin—which separated cotton fibers from its seeds with a previously undreamed-of efficiency—America’s plantation economy expanded exponentially and so did its use of slave labor.

From The Wall Street Journal

He is best known for his invention of the cotton gin, a machine that transformed cotton production, with tragic consequences for workers.

From The Wall Street Journal