An edition of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, 1793-1993
(1994)
Eli Whitney's cotton gin, 1793-1993
by David O. Whitten
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Cotton manufacture, Economic conditions, Social conditions, Congresses, Slavery, Cotton gins and ginning, LaborPeople
Eli Whitney (1765-1825)Places
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Table of Contents
Introduction -- David O. Whitten
Cotton as religion, politics, law, economics, and art -- James H. Soltow
Inquiry into the politics of the prohibition of the international slave trade -- Stephen J. Goldfarb
Other side of slavery: black labor, cotton, and the textile industrialization of Great Britain and the United States -- Ronald Bailey
Life and work in a progressive cotton community: Prattville, Alabama, 1846-1860 -- Martin T. Olliff.
Emergence of Birmingham as a case study of continuity between the antebellum planter class and industrialization in the "New South" -- W. David Lewis
Making a business of it: the evolution of southern cotton gin patenting, 1831-1890 -- William H. Phillips
High cotton: the antebellum Alabama plantation mistress and the cotton culture -- Leah Rawls Atkins
Why the cotton textile industry did not develop in the South sooner -- Carole E. Scott
Cotton's potential as an economic weapon: the antebellum and wartime markets for cotton textiles -- David G. Surdam.
Cotton ginnings reports program at the Bureau of the Census -- Michael Hovland
Strange affair of the boll weevil: the pest as liberator -- Arvareh E. Strickland
Impact of mechanized farming on black farm families in the rural South: a study of farm life in the Brooks farm community 1940-1970 -- Valerie Grim
Africa-American migration and urban labor skills: 1950 and 1960 -- Craig Heinicke
Portraits of twentieth-century American peasants: subsistence social values recorded in All God's Dangers and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -- Ronald E. Seavoy.
From Fustian to Merino: the rise of textiles using cotton before and after the gin -- Pamela V. Ulrich
Cotton gins and cottonseed oil mills in the New South -- Lynette Boney Wrenn
Factors affecting the resurgence of cotton production in Georgia during the 1980s -- Mark L. Gardner.
Edition Notes
Papers from the Cotton Gin Symposium, held May 5-7, 1993 in Auburn, Ala.
Also published as Agricultural history, v. 68, no. 2, Spring 1994.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gift of anonymous donor.
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