The development of the cotton gin — patented in 1794 — involves ... but the British were eating away that market with indigo created in its colonies. Rice requires a lot of water and swamp ...

On June 20, 1793, Eli Whitney, who had graduated from Yale the previous year, wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, requesting a patent for his new invention, the cotton gin. The gin ...

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton ... They were sold off in droves. This created a Second Middle Passage, the second largest forced migration in America ...

The Hutchinson News reports that the southern Kansas cotton gin formerly known as High Plains Cotton could see its second biggest ginning year. Its first was in 2007, when it ginned 24,000 bales.

Modern fertilizer, a blend of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash came into existence in the late 1880s. That’s today’s American Agriculture History Minute. I’m Mark Oppold. Thanks for reading. I’ll see ...

The development of the cotton gin — patented in 1794 — involves ... but the British were eating away that market with indigo created in its colonies. Rice requires a lot of water and swamp ...