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Article: Spinning Mills
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- Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
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SPINNING MILLS
Spinning mills were introduced to the United States in 1790 by English-born mechinist and businessman Samuel Slater (1768
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1835). The twenty-one year old had worked as a textile laborer for more than six years in an English mill, where he learned about the workings of a cotton-spinning machine invented (1783) by Richard Arkwright (1732
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92). The British considered the Arkwright mill the cornerstone of their booming textile industry and laws prevented anyone with knowledge of the mill from leaving the country. Eager to seek his own fortune, Slater disguised himself in 1789 to evade the authorities and sailed from England to recreate the spinning mill in America.
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