Because cotton was one of the main crops grown in the south, so a lot of the slaves worked on cotton plantations.
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 pick cotton by hand.
Yes they did, whites did pick cotton.
The invention of the cotton gin. More cotton, meant more people needed to pick, process the cotton. Thus, more slaves were needed.
Whitney's cotton gin created an easy way to pick the seed from the cotton. Once this was possible cotton became a cash crop and it was necessary to be picked far more to keep up with the ability to de-seed it. This in turn led to the need of more people (slaves) to pick the cotton.
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...
people don't have to pick cotton, and hurt their hands
The cotton gin does not pick the cotton. It separates the cotton fiber from the seeds and other debris
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 pick cotton by hand.
Yes they did, whites did pick cotton.
well its starts of at a cotton field and then people pick the cotton. then they send the cotton to a manufactorer and they make the finished t-shirt or product
in the civil wat when black people were told to pick it
Black people pick it
You pick it.
Life before the cotton gin for people was a bit harder they had to hand pick the cotton themselves
Slavery was basically abolished and people didn't depend on slaves to pick the cotton so people just worked for their money.