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What Was The Role Of Slavery In The United States

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Slavery was the center of the Southern economy. The culture of the South made it a necessity to have labor to work and harvest the crops of the cotton, tobacco, sugar and more. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1794 and once it was introduced to the South, more cotton could be picked. The purpose of the cotton gin was to have some of slaves work be lifted from their shoulders, but it resulted in the opposite. After the invention, slaves became in even more high demand and the number of slaves before the cotton gin and after the invention increased by approximately 400%. As there were more slaves more cotton was being grown and sold and the southern economy became extremely dependant on slave labor. Most slaves worked in the fields, but some slaves worked as maids, seamstresses, and cooks. These are jobs that white people would not do so, the “bad jobs” were taken care of for very cheap.
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