A comb for cotton.(Cotton Gin)(Eli Whitney)

Cobblestone | July 1, 2009| | Copyright

Southern plantation owners were desperate to find a way to make cotton growing profitable. Long-staple cotton, with seeds that were easy to separate from the fibers, could be grown only along the coast. Meanwhile, short-staple cotton, grown inland, had sticky green seeds that were difficult and time-consuming to pick out of the fluffy white cotton fibers. If the planters could find a way to make it easier to remove the seeds, then they could grow and harvest cotton more successfully, and this new crop could replace tobacco, which had exhausted the soil.

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