Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

by Angela Lakwete (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
Edition: New edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 12 Aug 2005

ISBN 10: 0801882729
ISBN 13: 9780801882722