The McLeod Plantation Historic Site on James Island has long been on my bucket list and I was finally able to visit on my ...

Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would revolutionize cotton production and create less of a need for ...

Greene’s plantation manager ... and one or two people could do the work of at least 55 people. The gin made cotton profitable which was a boon to the south, but did manage to keep slavery ...

Within 10 years after the cotton gin was put into use, the value of the total United States crop leaped from $150,000 to more than $8 million. This success of this plantation crop made it much ...

The plantation stretches for 37 acres and features a dairy and kitchen area, a worship center, a cemetery, a cotton gin house, a riverside outdoor pavilion and a tree known as the McLeod Oak ...

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton ... Many stakeholders benefited from the cotton economy — plantation owners in the South, banks in the North, shipping ...