Cotton Production
King Cotton
http://www.civilwarhome.com/kingcotton.htm
To Raise Something for Sale
http://www.itv.scetv.org/schistory/chapter13.pdf#search=%22cotton%20production%20%20antebellum%20south%22
Cotton
The New Georgia Encyclopedia
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2087
The Fabric of History: The Cotton Industry in New Orleans 1835-1885
The Historic New Orleans Collection
http://sewaneemuseum.org/cotton%20hnoc%20Emailing_%20fabric_htm.htm
The Cotton Economy of the Old South
Agricultural History Primer
Center for Agricultural and Rural Studies
Iowa State University
http://www.history.iastate.edu/agprimer/Page28.html
King Cotton: The Fabric of Slavery
Jean M. West
Slavery in America
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_cotton.htm
Manufacturing Cotton Textiles
*First American Cotton Mill Began Operation, December 20, 1790
America's Story from America’s Library
Library of Congress
http://americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/cotton_1
Regulations to be Observed by All Person Employed in the Lewiston Mills [Maine, 1867]
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2images/act9/Lew_rules.html
Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American History
The Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
Smithsonian Institution
http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/index.html
Historical Information on the Early Textile Industry
Occupational Health and Safety in Textile
Alina Chorstek
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/2/96.02.07.x.html#e
Textile Workers in the American Northeast and South: Shifting Landscapes of Class, Culture, Gender, Race, and Protest*
Mary H. Blewett
National Overview USA Textile Conference ISSH, 11-13 Nov. 2004
www.iisg.nl/research/usa.doc
Building America's Industrial Revolution: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, MA
Lowell National Historical Park
National Park Service
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/21boott/21boott.htm
The Lowell Mill Girls Go on Strike, 1836
Harriet Hanson Robinson
History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5714
Loom and Spindle or Life among the Early Mill Girls
Harriet Hanson Robinson
Thomas Y. Crowell and Company
New York, 1898
http://library.uml.edu/clh/All/han.pdf#search=%22cotton%20manufacture%20early%20%22mill%20girls%22%22
The Lowell Experiment
Prof. Louis Masur
The Lowell System
Primary Sources: Workshops in American History
WGBH Educational Foundation
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/lowell/transcript01.html
A Yarn to Follow: The Dover Cotton Factory, 1812-1821
Cathleen Beaudoin
Dover Public Library, Dover NH
http://www.dover.lib.nh.us/DoverHistory/mill_history.htm
Updated 10 October 2007 L. Averill
