Inventing the Cotton Gin

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Inventing the Cotton Gin is written by Angela Lakwete and published by JHU Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0801873940 (ISBN 10) and 9780801873942 (ISBN 13).

Lakwete shows how indentured British, and later enslaved Africans, built and used foot-powered models to process the cotton they grew for export. After Eli Whitney patented his wire-toothed gin, southern mechanics transformed it into the saw gin, offering stiff competition to northern manufacturers.