", "Samuel Slater and Moses Brown Change America", "Girl Power: The 1824 Factory Strike in America", "Not Just Business as Usual: Evolving Trends in Historical Research at Baker Library", Slater Mill, Sarah Leavitt, Arcadia Publishing, 1997, Timelineofclothingandtextilestechnology, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Slater&oldid=1133433563, Pages using infobox person with multiple spouses, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2017, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2016, Articles needing additional references from August 2011, All articles needing additional references, Articles needing additional references from March 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Bringing the Industrial Revolution to the U.S. from Great Britain. He took big risks in doing this, however. Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 - April 21, 1835) was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution ", a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson, and the "Father of the American Factory System". Skip Ancestry navigation Main Menu. Samuel Slater died in 1835. Another one of Slater's contributions was the use of child labor in relatively safe working environments. Hannah Fuller (c1636-1683) 3. Slater was not the only person building textile factories, but his contributions were crucial for the modernization of the young American nation. When Slater moved to the United States in 1789, the new nation's wealth relied mostly on farm products, and Slater helped turn one of those products, cotton, into a finished material that made America a dominant force in the world economy. Slater redesigned these systems to run on water, rather than manpower. Over time, he mechanized the entire textile manufacturing process. Like many other factories, the Slater System relied on child labor as a necessary and reasonable facet of the mill process. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. pliss (born Slater), William Anthony Slater, Thomas Slater, Margaret Lathim Holden (born Slater), John Slater, William Slater, Spencer, Iowa Jail Roster,
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