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Conversations on South Carolina: The State and the New Nation, 1783-1828 - The Importance of Cotton (5): The Rise Of Cotton In SC
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With the invention of the “Cotton Gin” by Eli Whitney, combined with methods we would today call “scientific plant breeding,” the cotton industry boomed in South Carolina, in the early 19th century. Cotton became the new cash crop of S.C.
