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First cotton gins revolutionized agriculture in Natchez
The construction of cotton gins in Natchez country in the mid-1790s changed the economy and signaled a dramatic rise in the slave market to provide the labor to grow, pick and gin cotton. The gin also brought great wealth to cotton planters and created an "old money" pipeline that flowed for generations and helped enrich one of the largest industries in the United States — New England textile manufacturing.
William Vousdan, an Irishman, who lived on a plantation called the "Cotton Fields" located on both sides of St. Catherine Creek outside Natchez, reportedly grew clean, high quality cotton by 1795. Vousdan grew a black seed cotton and was the first Natchez country resident to export cotton, which he cleaned and converted to lint on a roller gin.
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