Cotton Promotes Slavery
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Description: Short article from 'An Outline of American History', showing how the combination of the introduction of new types of cotton, Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin and the Industrial Revolution which vastly increased demand for cotton, contributed to the continuation of slavery in the United States.
Cotton Promotes Slavery < Westward Expansion And Regional Differences < History 1990 < American History From Revolution To Reconstruction and beyond Slavery, which had up to now received little public attention, suddenly assumed enormous importance -
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