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The cotton gin

by Nancy Robinson Masters

Cotton manufactureJuvenile literatureBiographyInventorsWhitney, eli, 1765-1825Inventors, juvenile literature

Explains the importance of cotton and the mechanics of the cotton gin, patented by Eli Whitney in 1794, and describes how this invention enabled the expansion of the American slave trade.

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