jan 1, 1793 - Cotton Gin Invented

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• Eli Whitney
• 20x the labor
• Makes cotton profitable
– by 1840, cotton dominated the US economy
• Changes slave distribution
• Textile industry: Northern economy
– Dependant on slave cotton
• Changes attitudes on African-Americans
– Slavery becomes more entrenched in South and tolerated as a distant evil in North

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