The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

Classroom | The Cotton Gin

The invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the worldwide textile industry, and with it the dynamics of the slavery in America. This video is an excerpt from Episode Two, The Age of Slavery, from the series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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