You can get roughly a Bale an acre. If you are luckys maybe a bale and half. You can pick by hand in a full day a bale, only if you are a good worker. That's 500 pounds of cotton.
The economy went down because they didn't have slaves to pick the cotton and they didn't want to pick it so the crops rotted in the field.
Eli Whitney's invention, the cotton gin, helped the south to become the world's greatest cotton producer. The cotton gin pulled the seeds out of the cotton boll, allowing cotton to be processes at a rapid pace.
Generally, if you pick it yourself, it is about $13 a bushel, on average.
Cotton was important to the south because during the civil war that is all the south had. They didn't have big factories to make guns. The south wanted to use cotto to lure England and France into a military alliance. This was also called the cotton diplomacy.
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5,000. they were hard workers
I hope so.
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Becuase of the gin it was much faster to pick to the cotton
Workers that pick mangos off of trees for a living.
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The cotton gin does not pick the cotton. It separates the cotton fiber from the seeds and other debris
Slaves pick cotton by hand.
Yes they did, whites did pick cotton.
They had to pick until night time. from dawn to duska normal field hand slave was expected to pick 150-200 pounds of cotton a day
You would get paid atleast $10 an hour.