Thursday, December 13, 2007

Cotton Gin question

Interesting Question shared by Jill A:
How did the Cotton Gin correlate to the growth of the Slave Population working in Cotton labor and the south’s dependence on Cotton"

We found answers in:

Cambridge Economic History of the United States REF 330.73 CAM vII
Historical Statistics of the United States REF 317.3 HIS
*any time people want to correlate patterns of growth across a long period of time, head to this set!
Book with subject Cotton-manufacture
Biographical dictionary of the history of technology (Routledge)

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