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The cotton gin actually added to the usefulness of slavery. Before the cotton gin was invented, cotton was a harder cash crop to make ready for the market because of the many little pieces of things stuck in the cotton itself. (Cotton is actually a flower/plant and it is in-cased in a hard shell which sticks to it when it was being harvested by the slaves of the South.) Thus before the cotton gin was invented cotton was losing its cash crop statues. However after the cotton gin was invented cotton was easier to clean and make ready for market, thus earning larger profits for the plantation owners. Slaves were now even more necessary for the growing, harvesting, and cleaning of cotton than before. In fact, you could say that the invention of the cotton gin prolonged the eventual death of slavery in the United States.

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