In a rather perverse way, it can be said the rebirth of slavery in the US Southern States was due in part by the lack of a money crop to profitable export. Many historians point out that slavery was becoming a declining institution because of increasing expense of harvesting cotton. Apart from tobacco, which was a soil wasting crop, it depleted the soil rapidly. Other crops such as corn, wheat and rice made for no great wealth. The Cotton Gin made harvesting cotton allot easier, thus the more slaves the South had, the more cotton could be planted & the more profitable were the cotton plantations. Within two years of the widespread use of the cotton gin, the demand for slave labor drastically increased. By the end of those two years, the price of slaves doubled.
If you're in the cotton business, you may need a cotton gin.
The fact that picking cotton with slaves was too slow, and the industrial state of America needed to increase production of cotton, so the cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney
The cotton gin!
The cotton gin!
cotton gin
The cotton gin led to a huge increase in the number of slaves in the South. This happened because the cotton gin caused more cotton to be produced.
The cotton gin.
Cotton gin
The cotton gin
It takes out the seeds from the cotton faster.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.
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