Eli Whitney, Biography | Ken Burns: The Civil War

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Eli Whitney, Biography | Ken Burns: The Civil War

Engineer Eli Whitney died 35 years before the Civil War, but his most famous invention, the cotton gin, set the economic stage for war.
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