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What was the cotton gin for?

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I am not sure he designed it for a specific plantation, but he heavily depended on Catharine Greene, who owned a Georgia plantation, for financial support, so he might have designed it for her plantation.

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Farming cotton required hundreds of man-hours to separate the cottonseed from the raw cotton fibers. A better method was required to harvest the crop and reduce expenses.

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He made it like a mill as the cotton went through it pulled all the cotton in and kind of "spit" the seeds out the other end

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It was used to speed up the process of picking the seeds out from upland cotton.

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