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First cotton gin
The First cotton-gin / drawn by William L. Sheppard. Published in Harper's Weekly in 1869. The cotton gine, a machine that cleaned seeds from cotton, was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, and revolutionized the U.S. cotton industry.
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Image keywords: 1800s, 19th-century, African Americans, Americas, Artifacts-Objects, Business-Industry, Eli Whitney, Eon3749, EonBudget, Illustrations, Industrial Revolution, Modern-Industrial, William L. Sheppard, agriculture, cotton, cotton gin, inventions, machines, plantations, slavery, slaves, technology