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Dates of Inventions promoting the growth and manufacture of
Cotton, and of movements to elevate the African race.

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Previous to the invention of the machinery named below, all
carding, spinning, and weaving of wool and cotton had been done
by the use of the hand-cards, one-spindle wheels, and common
hand-looms. The work, for a long period, was performed in
families; but the improved machinery propelled by steam power,
has so reduced the cost of cotton manufactures, that all
household manufacturing has long since been abandoned, and the
monopoly yielded to capitalists, who now fill the world with
their cheap fabrics.

1762. Carding machine invented.
1767. Spinning Jenny invented.
1769. Spinning Roller-frame invented.
" Cotton first planted in the United States.
" Watt's Steam Engine patented.
1775. Mule Jenny invented.
1776. Virginia forbids foreign slave trade.
1780. Emancipation by Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
1781. Muslins first made in England.
1784. Emancipation by Connecticut and Rhode Island.
1785. Watts' Engine improved and applied to cotton machinery.
First cotton mill erected, 1783.
1785. New York Abolition Society organized.
1786. Carding and spinning machines erected in Massachusetts.
1787. Power Loom invented.
" First Cotton mill erected in Beverly, Massachusetts.
" Pennsylvania Abolition Society formed.
" Slavery excluded from N. W. Territory, including Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, &c.
1789. Franklin issues an appeal for aid to instruct the free
blacks.
1792. Emancipation by New Hampshire.
1793. Cotton Gin invented.
1799. Emancipation by New York.
1804. Do. New Jersey.
1800. Cotton consumed in the United States, 200,000 lbs.
1801. United States exported to--
France,