African American History – Before 1865
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, which revolutionized the cotton industry and significantly impacted the economic landscape of the southern United States. The cotton gin made it much easier to separate cotton fibers from seeds, drastically increasing cotton production and reinforcing the reliance on slave labor in the South as demand for cotton surged.
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