Samuel Slater's Mill and the Industrial Revolution (Turning Points in American History)
by Christopher Simonds Author
(From Amazon): A biography of the English mechanical genius who, in 1789, defied laws forbidding the emigration of textile workers and established the American textile industry in Rhode Island.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0382099516
- Print Status
- In Print
- chapters
- 6
- Pages
- 64
- Publisher
- Silver Burdett Pr
- Copyright
- 1991
chapters
- Intro A Spy Comes to New York
- 1 New World, Old Ways
- 2 "Thee said thee could make machinery"
- 3 "Infant Industries" Grow Up
- 4 Working In the Mill
- Afterword A Changed Country
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