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Slaves pick cotton by hand.
Because cotton was one of the main crops grown in the south, so a lot of the slaves worked on cotton plantations.
are you stupid? they were slaves they where picking cotton during blizzards great grand daughter of a slave
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.
slaves were used on plantations to grow and pick the cotton
Slaves pick cotton by hand.
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the creation of the cotton gin. more slaves were needed to pick cotton than to pick the seeds from it
Cotton is currently picked by machine. They used to have slaves pick the cotton in the south by hand. You seem to have forgotton the people (both white & black) that picked cotton after the slaves & before the cotton picking machines.
Because cotton was one of the main crops grown in the south, so a lot of the slaves worked on cotton plantations.
Slaves were the free labor that the farmers needed to harvest the cotton>
Slavery was basically abolished and people didn't depend on slaves to pick the cotton so people just worked for their money.
are you stupid? they were slaves they where picking cotton during blizzards great grand daughter of a slave
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.
slaves were used on plantations to grow and pick the cotton
The invention of the cotton gin. More cotton, meant more people needed to pick, process the cotton. Thus, more slaves were needed.
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.