Catherine Littlefield Greene: The Heart of the Gin
About this episode
The episode explores the significant yet overlooked contributions of Catherine Littlefield Greene to the invention of the cotton gin during the Reconstruction Era.
A Rhode Island aristocrat who became a widowed plantation owner in the Reconstruction Era South may have been more instrumental to the invention of the cotton gin than Eli Whitney.
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