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to almost all cotton. This change

would only increase the demand for

slaves in the South. With the cotton

industry booming the need for

slaves was more needed than ever.

The North had abolished slavery by

1804 but since the South’s economy

revolutionized the cotton production depended much on the cotton

with the introduction of the cotton plantations, the slave population

gin. A simple mechanized device started to increase in the South.

that would remove the seeds from

the cotton, this device was widely Chapter 3: Rebellions

copied and within a few years the This oppression and injustice did not

South would transition from tobacco go unchecked, as many of the slaves