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The invention of the cotton gin led to increased demands for slave labor in the American South, reversing the economic decline that had occurred in the region during the late 18th century. [38] The cotton gin thus "transformed cotton as a crop and the American South into the globe's first agricultural powerhouse". [39]
Cotton exports from the U.S. boomed after the cotton gin's appearance – from less than 500,000 pounds (230,000 kg) in 1793 to 93 million pounds (42,000,000 kg) by 1810. [12] Cotton was a staple that could be stored for long periods and shipped long distances, unlike most agricultural products.
The invention of the cotton gin led to an increased demand for slaves in the South, reversing the economic decline that had occurred in the region during the late 18th century. [33] The cotton gin thus "transformed cotton as a crop and the American South into the globe's first agricultural powerhouse". [34]
English: African Americans slaves using the First cotton-gin, 1790-1800, drawn by William L. Sheppard. Illustration in Harper's weekly, 1869 Dec. 18, p. 813. Harpers Weekly's illustration depicting event of some 70 years earlier. The illustration is of a Roller Cotton Gin and not an illustration of a Whitney Spike Gin or Holmes Saw Gin.
They also freed the American slaves on the island. [3] [4] The Millers' Dungeness burned down in 1866. [1]: 163–164 The Millers were the first major planters of Sea Island cotton on Cumberland. They held a total of 210 slaves to work the plantation. Catharine and Phineas Miller helped Eli Whitney develop the cotton gin, debuted in 1793. [1]: 104
Frogmore Plantation is an historic, privately owned cotton plantation complex, located near Ferriday in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Since 1997, Frogmore Plantation is a working farm, tourist attraction featuring many structures, and educational center. Buildings on the site include a cotton gin, and a plantation manor house named Gillespie. [2]
William Ellison Jr. (April 1790 – December 5, 1861), born April Ellison, was an American cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, and former African-American slave who achieved considerable success as a slaveowner before the American Civil War. He eventually became a major planter and one of the wealthiest property owners in the ...
Before the Civil War, John Jarrell's farm was one of the half-million cotton farms in the South [4] that collectively produced two-thirds of the world's cotton. [5] Like many small planters, John Jarrell benefited from the development of the cotton gin in 1793 by Eli Whitney, which made it practical to cultivate heavily seeded, short-staple cotton even in hilly, inland areas of Georgia.