Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 90
l piece of inge-nuity. Not long afterward the Greenes were visitedby a party of gentlemen, chiefly officers who hadserved under the general in the Revolutionary ELI WHITNEY 75 War. The conversation turned on the state ofagriculture. It was remarked that unfortunatelythere was no means of cleaning… … Whitney Watching the Cotton-Gin. it for market. Separating one pound of theclean staple from the seed was a days work fora woman. The time usually devoted to the pick-ing of cotton was the evening, after the labor ofthe field was over. Then the slaves—men, wom-en, and children—were collected in…
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