Cotton is estimated to be about 7,000 years old, so no one knows who discovered cotton originally. It was grown, spun, and used in Pakistan and cotton clothing was worn in Egypt in 3,000 BC. The first discovery in the New World was made in 1492 when Christopher Columbus found it growing in the Bahamas
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By making it inexpensive to process cotton, it increased the demand for cotton, which increased the demand for slaves to grow cotton.
The Cotton Gin. It allowed for mechanical separation of the cotton fibers from cotton seeds, which radically increased the amount of cotton fiber able to be processed in a single day.
Cotton comes from a plant. (see the related link below) Cotton in Australia
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