Inventing the Cotton Gin Machine and Myth in Antebellum America

Name: Inventing the Cotton Gin Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
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ISBN: 9780801882722

ISBN-10: 0801882729

ISBN-13: 9780801882722

Edition: 2004

Authors: Angela Lakwete

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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 centuries before Whitney invented his gin in 1794. Nineteenth-century scholars overlooked them as well as gins made by southern -- and northern -- mechanics, in order to create a history meant to chasten some southerners and demean others. Using the gin as evidence, they read failure back from the Civil War into the choices that southerners made from the…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 9/16/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Angela Lakwete is an associate professor of history at Auburn University.




Cotton and the gin to 1600



The roller gin in the Americas, 1607-1790



The invention of the saw gin, 1790-1810



The transition from the roller to the saw gin, 1796-1830



The saw gin industry, 1830-1865



Saw gin innovation, 1820-1860



Old and new roller gins, 1820-1870



Machine and myth