Eli Whitney's cotton gin, 1793-1993
By: edited by David O. Whitten.
Contributors: Whitten, David O.; Cotton Gin Symposium (1993 : Auburn, Ala.)
Publisher: Agricultural History Society
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Whitney, Eli, -- 1765-1825; Cotton gins and ginning -- Southern States -- Congresses; Cotton manufacture -- Southern States -- Congresses; Labor -- Southern States -- Congresses; Slavery -- Southern States -- Congresses; Southern States -- Economic conditions -- Congresses; Southern States -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Agricultural history.
Notes: Papers from the Cotton Gin Symposium, held May 5-7, 1993 in Auburn, Ala.

Also published as Agricultural history, v. 68, no. 2, Spring 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gift of anonymous donor.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- David O. Whitten; title: Cotton as religion, politics, law, economics, and art -- James H. Soltow; title: Inquiry into the politics of the prohibition of the international slave trade -- Stephen J. Goldfarb; title: Other side of slavery: black labor, cotton, and the textile industrialization of Great Britain and the United States -- Ronald Bailey; title: Life and work in a progressive cotton community: Prattville, Alabama, 1846-1860 -- Martin T. Olliff.; title: Emergence of Birmingham as a case study of continuity between the antebellum planter class and industrialization in the "New South" -- W. David Lewis; title: Making a business of it: the evolution of southern cotton gin patenting, 1831-1890 -- William H. Phillips; title: High cotton: the antebellum Alabama plantation mistress and the cotton culture -- Leah Rawls Atkins; title: Why the cotton textile industry did not develop in the South sooner -- Carole E. Scott; title: Cotton's potential as an economic weapon: the antebellum and wartime markets for cotton textiles -- David G. Surdam.; title: Cotton ginnings reports program at the Bureau of the Census -- Michael Hovland; title: Strange affair of the boll weevil: the pest as liberator -- Arvareh E. Strickland; title: Impact of mechanized farming on black farm families in the rural South: a study of farm life in the Brooks farm community 1940-1970 -- Valerie Grim; title: Africa-American migration and urban labor skills: 1950 and 1960 -- Craig Heinicke; title: Portraits of twentieth-century American peasants: subsistence social values recorded in All God's Dangers and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -- Ronald E. Seavoy.; title: From Fustian to Merino: the rise of textiles using cotton before and after the gin -- Pamela V. Ulrich; title: Cotton gins and cottonseed oil mills in the New South -- Lynette Boney Wrenn; title: Factors affecting the resurgence of cotton production in Georgia during the 1980s -- Mark L. Gardner.