cotton gin
A lot less than before
The Cotton Gin helped the slaves pick the seeds out of the cotton>
The growth of slavery was a negative effect of the cotton gin. Because the gin could remove the seeds from the cotton boll more cotton was grown. Therefore more slaves were needed. As the amount of cotton grew so did the need for slaves.
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 essentially replaced the handpicking and cleaning of cotton. Before the invention of the gin, the U.S. employed slaves to handpick cotton. Currently, only third world countries still use slaves to handpick cotton.
before the cotton gin, peices of plant in the cotton were picked out by slaves, which of course was much slower. The cotton gin made the process of making cotton plants into usuable fabric was made much much easier. So people began growing more and more cotton.
The cotton gin essentially replaced the handpicking and cleaning of cotton. Before the invention of the gin, the U.S. employed slaves to handpick cotton. Currently, only third world countries still use slaves to handpick cotton.
cotton gin
A lot less than before
Plantation owners had slaves picking and seperating cotton with their bare hands.
not much. but after Eli Whitney made the cotton gin, slavery wanted to be expanded, pretty much causing the civil war
Before the cotton gin, there was not much profit to be had out of cotton. There was too much time involved in making it a marketable product. After the gin, cottons potential was realized, the plantations were booming. Even with the gin, the harvesting of cotton was still very labor intensive. Plantation owners brought in slaves to do the harvesting. This dramatically cut the cost of production and increased profit.
the cotton gin -apex
Because there is a seed inside every ball of cotton. Without the cotton Gin, people needed to remove each seed by hand before the cotton fiber could be processed and spun into thread. So much labor was required, that even if slaves helped, it was a barely profitable endeavor. The cotton gin made the seed removal process much faster, since much could be processed by few workers.
The cotton gin helped us by making it easier for slaves to produce cotton.
Before the cotton gin was invented back in 1793, farmers or plantation owners either had workers, or slaves pick the seeds from the cotton by hand.