Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 84
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 WIIITKEY 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 Avoman. 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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