Catherine Littlefield Greene: The Heart of the Gin

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Written By Ray Agostinelli

Catherine Littlefield Greene

 

A Rhode Island aristocrat who became a widowed plantation owner in the Confederation Era South may have been more instrumental to the invention of the cotton gin than Eli Whitney.

 

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