Today in 1793 Eli Whitney submitted his patent for the cotton gin, an invention that reshaped American labor by accelerating the rise of the industrial factory system in the North and dramatically expanding the brutal plantation slavery system in the South. The fight to tame the conditions industrial labor wrought, in part, by the cotton gin, remains underway today.
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