Wilson County planters George W. Stanton, Robert M. Cox, and Benjamin H. Bardin lent effusive praise to this advertisement for Lancaster’s Cotton Seed Sower. None of them actually worked the fields themselves, so Stanton and Cox made clear that the “machine” was not too complicated for black farmhands.
The Norfolk Virginian, 21 February 1866.
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A must read:
Black Inventors | The Engines of Our Ingenuity https://share.google/fswJCxt76mr9yqbLF
not only intelligent enough to “work” the gin but to “invent it”….
READ the article above for your self…classic American History.