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Chapter 2: Cotton Gin
In the late 18th century, the tobacco
industry nearly exhausted all of its
land use and the south had faced an
economic downfall, but with African
slaves population in America started
to grow, so they had to come up
century reaching numbers of up to 7
million black slaves in the America’s. with a solution. Around that same
The slaves would mostly work on time however the textile industry in
tobacco, rice, and indigo plantations England started to boom which lead
in the southern coast of the United to increase demand for cotton from
States. the Americas. The cotton production
however was limited due to the fact
that the seeds from raw cotton had
