Industrial Revolution | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/educational-resources/uncovering-america/industrial-revolution
In 1899 an unknown photographer documented the interior of a cotton gin operation in Dahomey, Mississippi. The image reveals the challenging and stifling work of processing raw cotton in the humidity of the southern United States. In the foreground, African Americans pack and press cotton into a massive bale.
Revolution in the United States is also the story of slave labor, land exploitation, and Indian