The cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney, increased the need for more cotton because it reduced the price of production. More cotton needed to be picked therefore requiring more manual labor, slaves.
Actually the invention of the cotton gin made the growth of more cotton possible which also meant that more slaves were needed to pick, grow, and process the cotton. The statistics show a direct relationship between the amount of cotton grown to the population of slaves.
Actually the invention of the cotton gin made the growth of more cotton possible which also meant that more slaves were needed to pick, grow, and process the cotton. The statistics show a direct relationship between the amount of cotton grown to the population of slaves.
The invention of the cotton gin. More cotton, meant more people needed to pick, process the cotton. Thus, more slaves were needed.
Because they needed more slaves to pick cotton because the machines that took the seeds out
so the slaves really did not have to pick them and, clean them all they had to do was get the cotton and put it in the cotton gin .
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.
Less slaves were needed to pick cotton
Slaves pick cotton by hand.
The expansion of cotton plantations in the South, particularly after the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, significantly increased the demand for slaves to work in the fields. The profitability of cotton as a cash crop led to an expansion of slave labor in the region to meet the growing demand for cotton production.
needed more slaves to pick cotton.
A cotton boll is very dense and to do anything with cotton the seeds have to be removed. Slaves would have to hand pick every seed out of the cotton. With the invention of the cotton gin the removal of the seeds was done with brush type teeth that would pull apart the cotton and the seeds fell to the bottom of the box. The seeds are kept for planting cotton again. The invention allowed for more cotton to be grown and the need for slaves grew. By 1860 there were 6 millions slaves in the south.
The growth of the cotton plantation demanded more slaves to work, pick, and grown the cotton. In looking at statistics of the numbers of bales of cotton there is a relationship to the number of slaves. More cotton meant more slaves.