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A young inventer named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in April 1793. He was a tutor at a Georgia plantation,Whitney over heard the planters discussing the problem of seperating the cotton from the seeds imbedded in the cotton ball. They told him how they would cut there hands on the seeds all the time. unlike Upland cotton which could be grown overmuch of the south, but it was ext