A single person could clean — maybe — a pound of cotton a day. In the late 1700s, plantation owner Catharine Littlefield Greene introduced Whitney to a group of farmers were trying to decide ...

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

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 ...

"While at the plantation, he watched one of the ... which made harvesting cotton easier and much faster. Whitney believed the gin would eliminate the need for slave labor, but instead the ...