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Black labor: From chattel slavery to wage slavery (www.workers.org)
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A great deal has been written about Eli Whitney as the inventor of the cotton gin and as a great scientist, which he certainly was. However, according to some accounts, the first gin made in Mississippi was constructed on the basis of a crude drawing by a skilled slave. This was probably not very unusual in light of the fact that even among the first slaves brought to this country from Africa, many were skilled craftsmen. Also in both the South and the North there were skilled free Blacks.

Since the slaves were never recognized in law as persons, the slave owners could appropriate their property as well as any inventions they might conceive of.

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