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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC09199 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1861 |
| Title | J. Sturgis Potter to Governor Francis W. Pickens suggesting that machinery for knitting hosiery can be adapted to use cotton thread |
| Date | 30 March 1861 |
| Author | Potter, J. Sturgis (fl. 1861) |
| Recipient | Pickens, Francis Wilkinson |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | A Boston entrepreneur suggests that machinery for knitting hosiery be adapted to cotton thread. "All of the labor except a man to manage the carding machines, could be better done by female slaves than any other. There is a cotton factory in your state that can at once be turned a very profitable account by introducing this machinery." |
| Subjects | Industry African American History Women's History Confederate States of America Slavery |
| People | Potter, J. Sturgis (fl. 1861) Pickens, Francis Wilkinson (1805-1869) |
| Place written | Seneca Falls, New York |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Industry; Slavery & Abolition; Women in American History |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | From the wartime papers of South Carolina Governors Francis W. Pickens and Milledge L. Bonham. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |