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The invention of the cotton gin actually revived a dying slavery demand.
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.
Slavery in the southern colonies increased after the invention of the cotton gin. This invention made plantation agriculture extremely lucrative; slavery was abolished in 1865.
The south had an economy built on cotton and slaves. Then when the cotton gin came into the picture the slaves were used less because of the gin worked faster than the slaves and so the demand in slaves dropped dramatically.
The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney and made cotton a much more profitable crop. Ten times the amount of cotton could be picked. Because of how profitable the cotton gin made cotton as a cash crop the demand for slaves continued. Eli Whitney said himself that he regretted the invention because of the increased demand for slave labor. The invention of the cotton gin was a major setback for the abolitionist movement. If this had not been invented slavery would have most likely been ended fifty years earlier.
c. the cotton gin Slavery was an invention too. It also transformed the southern cotton industry
the growth of cotton plantations and the invention of the cotton gin.
The Southern economy was stimulated by the invention of the cotton-gin. Slavery was the mainstay of the cotton industry, but it wasn't the stimulus. The North had given up slavery because it did not fit the industrial system. Factory-bosses wanted mobile, skilled labour. They could not use massed ranks of unlettered serfs.
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The Cotton Gin
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Slavery in the southern colonies increased after the invention of the cotton gin. This invention made plantation agriculture extremely lucrative; slavery was abolished in 1865.
The Cotton Gin created by Eli Whitney caused the spread of slavery.
Cotton, Slavery, and Oil
The invention of the cotton gin allowed for a more efficient method of separating cotton from its seeds. This allowed the South to produce more cotton at a faster rate, thereby increasing its economy and trade.
The cotton gin.
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