Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney

1765 -1825

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“Eli Whitney to Eli Whitney Senior, September 11, 1793,” in The American Historical Review Volume 3.1 (1897): 99 -101.
The American Historical Review, 99 -101.
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Lakwete, Angela. Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), 47.
McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 100.
A petition by Eli Whitney to the US Congress requesting renewal of his cotton gin patent, 1812. Dp.la. (Accessed April 13, 2020) https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/cotton-gin-and-the-expansion-of-slavery/sources/1876.
Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 14 November 1801. Founders.archive.gov. (Accessed April 13, 2020) https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-35-02-0506.
Eli Whitney to Phineas Miller, December 25, 1795, in The American Historical Review, 103 -104; See also Hounshell, David. From the American System to Mass Production, 1800 -1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984), 29 -32.

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