Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America by Angela Lakwete

Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America

Angela Lakwete

248 pages • paperback • 2005

3 editions

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"The cotton gin animates the American imagination in unique ways. It evokes no images of antique machinery or fluffy fiber but rather scenes of victimized slaves and battlefield dead. It provokes the suspicion that had Eli Whitney never invented t...

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