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Eli Whitney is generally credited. He won a contest to design a machine that would remove seeds from cotton efficiently. This was an enormous economic benefit to the South and made cotton the principal crop (previously, it had been tobacco). This expanded the use of slaves, since picking the cotton was still labor-intensive.
Incidently, "gin" is short for "engine."
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∙ 14y agoEli Whitney invented the cotton Gin near Savannah in 1793.
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