Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America

From: Business History Review | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Majewski, John | Copyright information

Inventing the Cotton Gin: Machine and Myth in Antebellum America. By Angela Lakwete. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xiii + 232 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45. ISBN: 0-801-87394-0.

As somebody who regularly teaches an introductory survey of U.S. history, I have five different textbooks sitting on my office bookshelf. Each book reports the same basic story: in 1793, the northern-born, Yale-educated Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin while visiting a Georgi...

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