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As the use of cotton propagated to Europe, cotton became a very important economic commodity.ĭue to cheap labor, almost all cotton sold from the Middle Ages on was made in India. In the Middle Ages, merchants who traveled from Europe to the Middle East brought back stories of a marvelous half-plant, half-lamb creature. Greeks and Romans used luxury cotton robes made in India and brought by camel caravans. Cotton was first grown, spun, and made into cloth in the Indus River Valley in Pakistan around 3,000 BCE. Morsels of cotton balls and fragments of cloth made out of cotton, were found by scientists in a cave in Tehuacán Valley, Mexico, dating from approximately 7,000 years ago. Nobody knows who decided to first use the cotton plant to make cloth. This invention revolutionized, transformed, and modernized the industry and economy of cotton, not only in the southern United States, but in the rest of the world. The Historic Cotton Exchange in Savannah (Figure 3) was built in 1886 and completed in 1887, (Figure 1) when the Savannah-area was known as “the Wall Street of the South.” The Savannah Cotton Exchange historical marker (Figure 2) illustrates the effect cotton had on the city of Savannah as well as the invention and patent of the cotton gin, originally built by Joseph Watkins and later improved by Eli Whitney (Figure 4). By looking at the name of the building, Cotton Exchange, I also thought that doing some research about the history of cotton which I did not know much about, would be fascinating and complement the findings. It reminds me of some buildings in my native city of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, from where I have been away for quite some years. I chose this topic because when our class made visits to marker sites, I was impressed with this building and its architecture. The following essay is by SCAD student Carlos Latimer, 2017.

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