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cottongin
Cotton Gin
>> 1739
Slavery
A machine invented by Eli Whitney that separated cotton fibers from the seeds. This machine could do a more thorough job in half the time it took a whole plantation of slaves; this meant that slavery was practically obsolete when it came to cotton separation.
