Western Civilization II / Unit 9 WC2 0807 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Textiles First: The Power Loom, the Mule, and Slave-Grown Cotton
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The idea
Cartwright's power loom of seventeen eighty-seven and the steam-driven mule made thread two to three hundred times faster than by hand, the anchor says; by eighteen fifty Britain wove two hundred times the cotton of seventeen eighty. Raw cotton came from the slaveholding American South.
In practice
The witness: Hargreaves's jenny began it.
Where people slip
Women preferred because paid less, the anchor's caption says.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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