Eli Whitney or Eli Whitney Jr. was born December 8, 1775 in a colony named Westborough, Massachusetts. He was born to Eli Whitney Sr. and Elizabeth Whitney. Not to mention, growing up with one sister, Elizabeth Whitney and two brothers, Benjamin and Josiah Whitney, in a farm in Westborough, Massachusetts. His father was a farmer who was well respected, as well as, being a justice of the peace. Eli Whitney Sr. born on December 9, 1740, died on August 25, 1807 in Westborough, Massachusetts. His mother
heart of the matter: the question of Eli Whitney's paternity of that most troublesome of all American inventions, the cotton gin, as well as the role southerners of both races played in its invention. Sheppard sought to dilute