Caption,Things Worth Knowing--The Cotton Gin. This image later appeared in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, vol. 9 (1880), p. 568, with the caption Whitney's Saw Gin; the 1880 image

Frank Leslie's Boy's and Girl's Weekly (Oct. 2, 1869), vol. 6, no. 154, p. 380, accompanies an article describing cotton production in South Carolina."

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"Cotton Gin, U.S. South, 1869", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed June 1, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1085