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Eli Whitney's Cotton-Gin
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Description: Whitney's cotton gin had a permanent influence on America's slavery. With-out a cotton-gin a slave could seperate only 1 pound of cotton a day. With the cotton-gin, a slave could seperate a thousand pounds.
Source: Wilbur F. Gordy A History of the United States for Schools (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ) 205
Keywords: cotton, gin, eli, whitney, slave
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