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Carte Inventing the Cotton Gin Angela Lakwete

Inventing the Cotton Gin

Machine and Myth in Antebellum America

Autor: Angela Lakwete
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Johns Hopkins University Press
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"The cotton gin animates the American imagination in unique ways. It evokes no images of antique mac...

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Autor
Angela Lakwete
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2003
Pagini
248
EAN
9780801873942
ISBN
0801873940
Enbook ID
04709326
Editura
Johns Hopkins University Press
Greutate
502
Dimensiuni
229 x 159 x 22

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"The cotton gin animates the American imagination in unique ways. It evokes no images of antique machinery or fluffy fiber but rather scenes of victimized slaves and battlefield dead. It provokes the suspicion that had Eli Whitney never invented the gin, United States history would have been somehow different. Yet cotton gins existed for centuries before Whitney invented his gin in 1794. Nineteenth-century scholars overlooked them as well as gins made by southern-and northern-mechanics, in order to create a history meant to chasten some southerners and demean others. Using the gin as evidence, they read failure back from the Civil War into the choices that southerners made from the American Revolution, tracing the steps that led them to Appomattox." In Inventing the Cotton Gin, Lakwete explores the history of the cotton gin as an aspect of global history and an artifact of southern industrial development. She examines gin invention and innovation in Asia and Africa from the earliest evidence to the seventeenth century, when British colonizers introduced an Asian hand-cranked roller gin to the Americas. Lakwete shows how indentured British, and later enslaved Africans, built and used foot-powered models to process the cotton they grew for export. After Eli Whitney patented his wire-toothed gin, southern mechanics transformed it into the saw gin, offering stiff competition to northern manufacturers. Far from being a record of southern failure, Lakwete concludes, the cotton gin-correctly understood-supplies evidence that the slave labor-based antebellum South innovated, industrialized, and modernized.

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