The cotton gin. It allowed the removal of the seeds.
cotton gin
The cotton gin
Cotton gin. Cotton gin made cotton production more profitable.
The cotton gin made selling cotton profitable with slave labor.
the cotton gin
Eli Whitney was likely the inventor who solidified the practice of slavery in the South. His invention of the cotton gin made cotton monstrously profitable.
The practice of slavery made the growing of cash crops profitable in the South. It was decades after slavery that mechanization made it extremely profitable again.
The cotton gin made by Eli Whitney
Yes. It was much easier to harvest.
Because the climate would not support plantations, which made slavery profitable.
The Cotton Gin. It allowed for mechanical separation of the cotton fibers from cotton seeds, which radically increased the amount of cotton fiber able to be processed in a single day.
Plantations in the colonies made a lot of the (later) cotton, peanuts, and other crops that needed the South's warm climate to grow.