click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in application for a patent. Jefferson replied ...

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton ... the second largest forced migration in America’s history. To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African ...

If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example of how the industrial revolution took previously manual processes and ...

THE PRINT SHOP THE BLACK SMITH SHOP, THE WOOD TURNERS HERE, WE HAVE THE WOOD CARVERS, THE SAW MILL RUNNING WE HAVE THE COTTON ...