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the loom, and the whole machinery of the operation. He went aboard a ship to come home without a scrap of paper, because they searched him, having known he was a textile worker. He and his baggage were searched and he didn't have a scrap of paper on him. He came out with this in his memory. It is said that on the long voyage on the ship he made some sketches and some notes, but he left England without them.

At any rate, he came home and built machinery on the basis of his memory. Of course, the Slater mills were built then and they were the pioneers in the cotton textile industry. Then they went through all sorts of ups and downs like the rest of the textile industry in the course of time.

Young Nelson Slater had inherited this empire. It was a time when the New England cotton textile industry had become very, very shaky. The Salter mills, like others, had built new plants in the South, but they still had the old plants on their hands. Because of this long family connection with the Slater mills in New England, which the family had great pride in, as their family had introduced cotton textile manufacturing to America, young Slater had an exceptional sense of responsibility for the old mills in New England. He had never abandoned them the way some cotton textile manufacturers had because he felt responsible to these people who had worked there, lived there, and been planted there so long.