Eli Whitney Saw Cotton as the answer to the Plantation Problem
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"I heard much said of the extreme difficulty in ginning Cotton, that is, separating it from its seeds... I made [a gin] before I came away which required the labor of one man to turn it and with which one man will clean ten times as much cotton as he can in any other way before known and also cleanse it much better than in the usual mode." -Eli Whitney in a letter to his father