Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney is credited with creating the cotton gin. He was born in 1765 in Westboro, Massachusetts. Eli Whitney lived the majority of his adult life in New Haven, Connecticut, where he died in 1825.

Yes. Slaves often, almost always, used cotton gins to do their work on a farm. Since the invention of the cotton gin in 1794 by Eli Whitney, a southern schoolteacher, cotton gins grew immensely popular and were used quite often throughout the 1800s as an aid to both farmers and slaves. With the invention of the cotton gin, picking the seeds from fluffy cotton bolls was made a much simpler task. The gin made an easier way for cotton bolls to be separated from the seeds that farmers didn't need to be sold, and that couldn't be made into cloth. Slaves usually did the majority of the farm work on any southern farm, and so they usually used the cotton gin to help them quicken the task of cleaning cotton. The cotton gin works through feeding cotton bolls into the machine, spinning a handle on the side, which separates the cotton from the seeds, and then fluffy tufts of cleaned cotton come out through the other side. Cotton gins were initially made to cut down slave labor because of their simplicity and speed, but in actuality they raised the amount of slave labor growing in the south because now one worker could produce more cotton in an hour than 50 workers in the same amount of time without the aid of a gin. So to answer your question, yes, slaves utilized cotton gins quite often.

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They were working in the house for white people and they would take care of kids cook and clean and do laundry and stuff like that.

1798 by inventor Eli Whitney..(:

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Cotton gin and interchangeable parts

After graduating college Eli WHitney worked as a tutor to earn money and pay his University debts.

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In GA in 1794

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No, he doesent have any pets.

he was not fat

He lived in Westboro, Massachusetts. He invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.

he developed the concept of interchangable parts

it changed peoples lives because now you would have less slaves picking cotton and you can do it much more faster

But in the south people wanted more slaves so they can do it fast to

Eli Whitney was inspired at Mrs. Greene's cotton plantation in Georgia. There he witnessed the hardship that slaves, experienced while harvesting cotton. This was so, because of the kind of cotton that was grown in most parts of the South, was very hard to clean by hand. Because of this Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.

the old fashioned way farmers grew there crop's.

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it made it better for slaves so they they won't have to constantly keep cleaning it.

In 1793, Eli Whitney came out with his invention, the cotton gin. This revolutionized the way the South was able to function as an agricultural region.

Eli Whitney married Henrietta Edwards in 1817. Their marriage ended with Whitney's death in 1825.