Homework Help: History

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 15, 2007 at 1:19am.

What effects did the cotton gin have one America?

I know it increased the cotton production in the south but i'm not quite sure what it did for slaves.

History - Writeacher, Saturday, September 15, 2007 at 8:39am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin
Read the section called Significance.

http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/cotton+gin
Read the first paragraph.

I went to www.google.com and entered cotton gin results slaves -- and there are many more results than these two.

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