History: Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1793) was meant to REDUCE sla…

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Did you know? Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1793) was meant to REDUCE slavery — by making work more efficient. Instead it caused a cotton-production explosion in the American South, and 50 years of GROWTH in slavery. Southern cotton harvest grew from 1,500 tonnes (1790) to 1 million tonnes (1860).

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Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1793) was meant to REDUCE slavery — by making work more efficient. Instead it caused a cotton-production explosion in the American South, and 50 years of GROWTH in slavery. Southern cotton harvest grew from 1,500 tonnes (1790) to 1 million tonnes (1860).

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