If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney ... In the late 1700s, plantation owner Catharine Littlefield Greene introduced Whitney to a group ...

Bowling Green Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1795. Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would ...

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin ... Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the South, banks in the North, shipping merchants, and the textile ...