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date: 12 February 2025

Textile Industry. 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to United States History
Author(s):
Laurence F. GrossLaurence F. Gross

American colonists hand-produced textiles for various purposes. The English first devised textile-manufacturing machinery, and Samuel Slater, an English mill overseer who immigrated to America, successfully produced cotton yarn at a Pawtucket, Rhode Island, mill in ... ...

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