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It made it easier for slaves to remove seeds from cotton.
they had to get more slaves
they had to get more slaves
By making it inexpensive to process cotton, it increased the demand for cotton, which increased the demand for slaves to grow cotton.
Cotton was a prized crop in the American colonies and later in the United States. There was a worldwide demand for this crop and it was used to make all types of clothing. The US Southern climate was ideal for growing cotton and much of it was purchased by the Northern industrial US States and in England. The demand seemed to have no limits. When the cotton gin was invented in allowed for an easier way to remove seeds from cotton. More cotton was produced and sold worldwide as its demand seemed never to cease. With that said, cotton became a boom crop because of the demand of it in textile mills in the US and in Europe.
Most of Britain's cotton came from its colonies in India and later from the southern United States during the Industrial Revolution. The demand for cotton textiles and the expansion of the cotton industry in Britain drove the need for a steady supply of raw cotton.
The cotton gin made it possible for one worker to remove the seeds from 50 times as much cotton than he could removing the seeds with his hands. Contrary to Eli Whitney's intention, this increased the demand for slave labor.
The cotton gin made it possible for one worker to remove the seeds from 50 times as much cotton than he could removing the seeds with his hands. Contrary to Eli Whitney's intention, this increased the demand for slave labor.
A time when cotton is in big demand. This happened in the Southern states after the invention of the cotton-gin, when they were able to supply the huge worldwide demand for cotton, and that region very quickly turned into a cotton empire.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, which made cotton harvesting much easier for southern farmers. The ease of growing and harvesting then caused it to become the chief industry of the south, and resulted in the Southern States having a strongly agrarian economy.
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...
The cotton gin made it possible for one worker to remove the seeds from 50 times as much cotton than he could removing the seeds with his hands. Contrary to Eli Whitney's intention, this increased the demand for slave labor.