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Southern Times
This newspaper is written by Josephine K. Hernandez
Cotton Boom from Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was created by Eli Whitney in 1793. His invention “enabled one worker, usually a slave, to clean cotton as fast as 50 people working by hand.” This was vary good for the farmers who owned the cotton farms. The cotton gin was vary useful. It took out the seeds from the cotton fibers a lot faster than the workers could.
There are 4 different working parts. First the “cotton bolls are dumped into the hopper.” The second part is “a hand crank turns a cylinder with wire teeth. The teeth pull the cotton past a grate.” The third part is “slots in the grate allow the cotton but not its seeds to pass through.”...