by Jeremy Brister
 Cotton Gin and it's Effect on Slavery
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  • The Cotton Gin's Effect on Slavery
  • Eli Whitney
  • Mechanics of the Cotton Gin
  • Process Paper
  • Bibliography
  • Thesis Statement

eli whitney

12/8/1765 - 1/8/1825

The cotton engine was created on March 17 1794.

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Eli Whitney

The third best known American inventor of the pre-atomic age, after Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, is probably Eli Whitney. Whitney certainly transformed the economies of the antebellum North and South. But among invention aficionados, his invention of the cotton gin is a matter of some dispute. 
                ---                Jeremy Brister
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