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cotton picker

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cotton picker
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a person who picks ripe cotton fibre from the plants


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He further argues that the advent of the mechanical cotton picker, by reducing the need for black farm labor, laid the ground for the successful campaign against legal segregation.
It was the automatic cotton picker that freed and displaced African Americans from the slave economy of Jim Crow and cotton.
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