Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, wasn't black. But here's why so many people think he was.

Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, wasn't black. But here's why so many people think he was.
Whitney was white. He is not a mysterious figure. He was born in 1765 in Massachusetts to a wealthy farming family, he went to Yale, he married Jonathan Edwards’ granddaughter, and he died in 1825.

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