If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example of how the industrial revolution took previously manual processes and ...

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton ... the second largest forced migration in America’s history. To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African ...

Multiple students reported feeling humiliated after racist jokes followed a Virginia high school history lesson involving ... on the invention of the cotton gin and enslavement, a Riverside ...

With the gin (short for engine), raw cotton could be quickly cleaned; Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the southern economy and changing the dynamics of slavery. The first ...

The Hutchinson News reports that the southern Kansas cotton gin formerly known as High Plains Cotton could see its second biggest ginning year. Its first was in 2007, when it ginned 24,000 bales.

On Dec. 5, during a college-level U.S. history class for juniors and seniors, the teacher initiated a discussion about cotton, the invention of the cotton gin and the enslavement of African Americans.

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - An outdated Farm Bill, a devastating wildfire, and a cotton gin celebrating 100 years all topped ag ... Largest wildfire in Texas history In March, the largest wildfire in ...