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A converted outbuilding at Mulberry Grove plantation, near Savannah, Georgia, spring 1793: rough sawn timber walls, a workbench cluttered with hand tools and wood shavings, raw cotton in an open basket beside the machine, a small window admitting daylight. the toothed cylinder turns directly against the slotted breastwork, fibre passing between them. the seed tray sits directly beneath the breastwork, catching what falls from its face. The toothed cylinder is about as long as a man's forearm and roughly the thickness of a fence post; a single cotton seed caught against the breastwork is smaller than a fingernail. It is 1793, Georgia: the cotton gin fills the frame alone; rough sawn pine, wrought wire, raw cotton fibre, dark green cotton seed; a hand-cranked wooden gin with a wire-toothed cylinder and slotted breastwork - the hand crank supplies every motion. 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