Yes they did, whites did pick cotton.
Slaves pick cotton by hand.
slaves were used on plantations to grow and pick the cotton
Becuase of the gin it was much faster to pick to the cotton
The Cotton Gin helped the slaves pick the seeds out of the cotton>
The Cotton Gin The Cotton Gin was so popular that people started getting them. The invention required more people to pick more cotton, so farmers bought even more slaves to pick the cotton.
The cotton gin does not pick the cotton. It separates the cotton fiber from the seeds and other debris
Slaves pick cotton by hand.
You pick it.
The Cotton Gin merely raised the demand for cotton as it was a machine that quickly separated the cotton from the seed. But what the Cotton Gin couldn't do was pick the cotton. Paying people to pick the cotton was now even less cost efficient...
It helped pick the many cotton seeds from cotton.
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During the Civil War, there WAS no machinery to pick cotton- it was picked by hand. The machine that was used to separate the cotton fiber from the seeds was the Cotton Gin (as in engine).
It picks cotton and it is a machine that runs by itself without having to pick the cotton with your hands.
To find cotton, look for whitish bushes, and pick up the cotton. - ScarletStorm, Palomino Server : )
Yes, slaves had to pick king cotton; "King Cotton" is just another name for Cotton during the times of slavery before the American Civil War. It was a phrase used in those times since cotton was so important.
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