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Why was the cotton gin created?

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It was invented to mechanically separate cotton fibers from their seeds, which until then had been done by hand by slaves. An unforseen effect was that it did not reduce the demand for slaves as might have been expected; on the contrary, it led to an explosive growth of cotton production and because of that, to an increase in the demand for slaves.

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cotton gin was created to take the seeds out of cotton faster than picking the seeds from hand

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