If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example of how the industrial revolution took previously manual processes and ...

And for people of African descent, the cotton gin was not progress. It was a further entrenchment of enslavement. And for African Americans, the Industrial Revolution, those technological advances ...

The assignment this week was reportedly intended to teach seventh-grade social studies students at Porter Ridge Middle School about the 18th-century cotton gin and its impact during the Industrial ...