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My Ornament: The Stocking Between Cotton Gin And Spinner
My ornament is a stocking that showcases the cotton plantation and the aftermath of cotton gin and cotton spinners. In the front, it has a cotton plant which also has cotton balls glue to it. This refers to the cotton plantations that slaves worked on the Southern Plantations. The cotton balls that are filled in the stocking refers to the invention of the cotton gin and spinner. The lace on the stocking refers to what cotton is used for in the modern day.
Cotton, along with tobacco, rice and indigo, is a major crop grown in the plantation of the Americas extended beyond the Caribbean and Brazil. The plantations were based on African slavery. Cheap labor was essential for the plantations to become profitable, but it was intensive. By mid-19th
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