Answer:
Eli Whitney
Explanation:
Ely Whitney was born on December 8, 1767 in Massachusetts. He is most known for inventing the cotton gin, a machine that cleans cotton of it's seeds powered by water, animals, or humans. Although Whitney patented his invention in 1793, it was copied by a lot of people due to it's simplicity. Cotton gin made it possible to raise cotton production to very high numbers, due to this, cotton plantations multiplied helping, in a long term, to institutionalize slavery.
