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In 2005 historian Angela Lakwete used this print as the cover of Inventing the C

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In 2005 historian Angela Lakwete used this print as the cover of Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America to show that devices similar to that “invented” by Eli Whitney in 1793 had long been in use in the South. The human details in the image are revealing as well.
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