- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Eli Whitney in Georgia
- Creator:
- Hatfield, Edward A.
- Date of Original:
- 2007-11-30
- Subject:
- Inventors--United States
Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825
Industrialists--United States
Mechanical engineers--United States
Cotton gins and ginning--Georgia
Cotton machinery--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Eli Whitney in Georgia. Eli Whitney, a Massachusetts native, only spent a few months living in Georgia, but during that time, in 1793, he invented the cotton gin. Whitney's machine expedited the extraction of seeds from upland cotton, making the crop profitable and contributing to its expansion across the South. This deepened the region's commitment to slave labor and ultimately placed the country on the path to the Civil War (1861-65).
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/eli-whitney-in-georgia/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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