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Cheap,efficient, labor. To me it cuz they were to lazy to do it them selves and took pleasure in watching someone els(slaves) do the hard work. At that time period people hated the different races cuz thet spoke differntly than we do and they looked different so they thought that they didnt mean a thing so when one slave died they didnt mind cuz they could buy a nother one. And they bought slaves cuz they were cheaper and they would work them harder than you could picture... But in reality we are all gods children, we beat the same heart, we are all the same and part of his plan for suvival.
also don't forget all u.s. dollars are made of cotton with the slave owner faces and names.
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How do slaves pick cotton?
Slaves pick cotton by hand.
What was the name of the machine that separated cotton fibers from the seeds and increased the demand for slave labor?
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.
Did slaves use cotton gins?
Yes. Slaves often, almost always, used cotton gins to do their work on a farm. Since the invention of the cotton gin in 1794 by Eli Whitney, a southern schoolteacher, cotton gins grew immensely popular and were used quite often throughout the 1800s as an aid to both farmers and slaves. With the invention of the cotton gin, picking the seeds from fluffy cotton bolls was made a much simpler task. The gin made an easier way for cotton bolls to be separated from the seeds that farmers didn't need to be sold, and that couldn't be made into cloth. Slaves usually did the majority of the farm work on any southern farm, and so they usually used the cotton gin to help them quicken the task of cleaning cotton. The cotton gin works through feeding cotton bolls into the machine, spinning a handle on the side, which separates the cotton from the seeds, and then fluffy tufts of cleaned cotton come out through the other side. Cotton gins were initially made to cut down slave labor because of their simplicity and speed, but in actuality they raised the amount of slave labor growing in the south because now one worker could produce more cotton in an hour than 50 workers in the same amount of time without the aid of a gin. So to answer your question, yes, slaves utilized cotton gins quite often.
How is the cotton gin negative?
it made plantation owners buy and use more slaves.
The growing demand for slaves led to an increase in the U.S.?
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.
Why were slaves needed to pick and grow cotton after the cotton gin was invented?
Slaves were the free labor that the farmers needed to harvest the cotton>
Does cotton grow in the US?
Yes, cotton grows in the US. remember when people had slaves, they grew cotton in the south. we can probably still grow cotton, but slaves don't grow it anymore, farmers do.
How was cotton made by slaves?
Southern cotton farmers needed extensive hand labor to plant, pick, gin, and bale the cotton they grew. Without slaves, it would have been difficult to find affordable laborers.
How did Eli Whitney's cotton gin affect the value of slaves?
When the cotton gin was invented, slaves became incredibly valuable. This invention separated seeds from the white cottony fiber of the cotton, eliminating the need of slaves to do it. So the farmers could now grow more cotton, and to do this they needed more slaves. But at this time slave trade was abolished. So slaves became extremely expensive. From $600 to $1,800!So people started to 'breed' slaves, as a result of this.
Why do you think the farmers were silent on the issue of slavery in the wording of the Constitution?
Because farmers needed slaves to pick cotton, Dumb a$$, did you mean Framers?
In 1838 Southerners measured their wealth by what two elements?
cotton and slaves cotton and slaves cotton and slaves cotton and slaves cotton and slaves
What caused the increase demand for slaves?
More farmers got the wretched idea to get slaves. It kept spreading farther and farther. The invention of the cotton gin also increased the demand for slaves to work in farms tending and harvesting the cotton.
Where did slaves use the bathroom?
Behind the cotton crops
What did people use before Cyrus McCormick's reaper?
Farmers had slaves to help them but afterwards, when the reaper came in, it made farmers get more slaves
What type of farmers own the most slaves in the mid 1800's?
Cotton growers probably owned the most slaves. Cotton needs a lot of manual labor to cultivate and harvest and was the most profitable crop in the slave states.
What did Egyptian farmers use to pull plows?
oxen, slaves
How do slaves pick cotton?
Slaves pick cotton by hand.
