Bowling Green Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1795. Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would ...

In pre-Civil War Tennessee and Alabama, slaves used wooden ginning machines to turn cotton into clothing, according to Tony Mullins of Louisiana, who collects the devices shown in the accompanying ...

A south Lubbock County cotton gin hopes to speed up its ginning efficiency with its new equipment, especially since the High Plains is expected to yield a record crop. Lubbock Cotton Growers purchased ...

BURTON, Texas — A three-story cypress wood frame structure covered with corrugated tin is a monument to 13 Southeast Texas farmers pursuing their dreams of making a living growing cotton, a crop ...