may 25, 1791 - 1791: Eli Whitney invents the Cotton gin, facilitating the spread of slavery in the south. First edition of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is published and raises awareness for the Abolitionist cause by exposing the brutality of slavery and the horrors of the Middle Passage.
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may 25, 1791
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~ 235 years ago