cotton fiber

His grave contained a clothing button that was made from animal bone and still carried some cotton fiber, said Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg’s director of archaeology.

The transatlantic slave trade was outlawed in 1808 and slavery was in decline before Eli Whitney invented the labor-saving gin to separate white cotton fibers from seeds.

She could whittle a slice of wood to fit it—and pack it securely with mutowa sap and wild cotton fiber.

Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, the cotton gin mechanically separated cotton fiber from seeds.

The machine is similar to the better-known cotton gin, which separates cotton fibers from their seeds.