Inventing the Cotton Gin Machine and Myth in Antebellum America |
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| Author:
| Lakwete, Angela |
| Series title: | Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-8272-2 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2005 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $73.99 |
Book Description:
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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 the gin, United States history would have been somehow different. Yet cotton gins existed for ......
''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 the gin, United States history would have been somehow different. Yet cotton gins existed for ......