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Guest columnist Richard Szlosek: Samuel and Eli
How Slater’s mills and Whitney’s cotton gin transformed U.S. industry and agriculture, fueling cotton expansion, slavery’s growth, and eventual sectional conflict leading to the Civil War.
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