Industrial Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Quarry Bank Mill, Styal (1784)
1784 — Samuel Greg builds a cotton mill here and staffs it largely with pauper children bound as apprentices, housed in an apprentice house beside the river. In the Gregs’ family fortune, mills and Caribbean plantations ran side by side.
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- Cotton and the factory system (chapter 2 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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