Cotton Gin Impact On Slavery

In 1794, U.S. inventor Eli Whitney patented a machine that transformed the production of cotton by significantly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber called the cotton gin. By the middle of the 19th century cotton had become America’s leading export. This gave Sothern’s the rationalization to maintain and expand slavery despite large number of abolitionists in America. While the cotton gin made cotton processing easier, it facilitated planters in earning greater profits, resulting in larger cotton crops. This in turn increased slavery because it was the cheapest form of labor. As for the North, particularly New England, the cotton gin and cotton’s increase meant a steady supply of raw materials for its textile mills.

This proves the quantity aspect of the cotton gin showing the pure power and might of the gin. Obviously there had to be more slaves for this increase in cotton, the power of the gin combined with the number of slaves led up to the astonishing amount of cotton and the civil

Before the cotton gin was invented there weren’t need for many slaves. They cotton business wasn’t a money making business because of how long it took to produce cotton and seeds. I once was in Georgia and picked a big garbage bag full of it took me a year to remove the seeds from half the bag. Since the cotton gin removed all the seeds and took less time there was need for more slaves to speed the process of picking from the fields. The cotton gin made this business a moneymaker causing increased need for slavery.

Slavery was a harsh system that consisted of forcing other human beings to work in harsh conditions; as well as restrict their freedom to the point where they had none. Slavery was first introduced into Colonial America in 1619, and lasted for 245 years. During those 245 years, slavery harshly affected those who were involved in its system. The institution of slavery has profoundly influenced and shaped multiple aspects of Colonial America and the United States. Slavery influenced the 13 Colonies and the U.S. by the growth in sales for Cotton, and farming. Slavery shaped Colonial America and the United States culturally, by proving to the slaves that white people were far more superior than African Americans, religion and Cult of Domesticity. Lastly slavery shaped Colonial America and the United States politically by causing rebellions, and abolitionism.

In 1793 the cotton industry bloomed because of Eli Whitney when he invented the cotton gin. With the invention of the cotton gin, cotton became a tremendously profitable industry, creating many fortunes for white plantation owners in the antebellum South. “American inventor Eli Whitney and his cotton gin improved the cleaning of raw cotton, facilitating the continuing growth of the industry in many locales.” This proves that the cotton industry rose after the gin was invented. It is evident that Eli Whitney played a major part of the growth of the cotton industry. Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry.

     One of the most important events caused by the cotton gin was the exile of the Cherokee Indians along the Trail of Tears. As the demand for cotton and slaves grew the South began to look for more land, and discovered it in the land owned by the Cherokee Indians. The land was taken from them beginning in 1828 when the Georgia government outlawed the Cherokee government and began to take the land. This continued until 1838 when, despite a Supreme Court order, federal troops drove the last of the Cherokee from the land, that covered Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina to Oklahoma where many of them died. This would not have occurred had it not been for the invention of the cotton gin. The cotton gin created a market for slavery. As the production of cotton rose so did the production of slavery. These enterprises needed land, which stimulated the wars against the Indians to take their land, which could then be used by cotton farmers, and plantation holders who bred slaves. Whitney’s cotton gin, and its ripple effect was having a major impact on the events in the American South.

Slaves suffered within a system characterized by undernourishment, overwork, harsh punishment, ill health, and despair. The purpose of this paper is to address the significant problems slavery caused the world in which talk of rights and liberties were increasingly popularized. Slavery divested lives of many African Americans who were sold into enslavement for many years.

The cotton gin had an enormous impact on American slaves and the economy, in 1794. Before Whitney came up with this astonishing invention, the plantations were becoming less profitable.This was a very efficient way to make quick cash. Instead of having to take care of slaves in the intense heat of the south. It was more reliable to depend on technology, rather than slaves. The cotton gin helped the economy to become more established, but the owners needed a multitude of slaves to help operate.

The cotton gin impacted the Southern States’ growth of slavery. Did you know, that the cotton gin’s process was inspired by how to the slaves cleaned the cotton? Eli Whitney (the inventor of the cotton gin), watched the slaves clean the cotton. He watched the slaves grab the seeds with one hand, and pull back the lint with the other. That is almost how the cotton gin works. The seed is stopped because it can’t fit through the opening. Then a brush comes and pulls back the lint.

Although Whitney acknowledged the difficulty, he didn’t want the valuable commodity,cotton, to disappear. With this in mind, Eli Whitney constructed an invention, the Cotton Gin, that took away all the laboriousness and hardship of producing cotton in time. According to an article, Growth and Entrenchment of Slavery, it said, “With the gin (short for engine), raw cotton could be quickly cleaned; Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the southern economy and changing the dynamics of slavery.” The creation of the Cotton Gin created a huge innovation for the southern states. The Cotton Gin was able to produce the result the people needed and cotton was able to be yield easier. In order to make the Cotton Gin harvest large amounts of cotton faster and easier, Whitney conceptualized ideas to improve the existing Cotton Gin. By this time, the northern states were more concentrated toward industrial due to the non-fertile soil found there. According to an article, the Growth of the Cotton Industry, it said, “Additionally, the development of large-scale mills and metal machine tools dramatically increased textile production in Northern mill towns in the early 1800s.” This quote shows the effect of the Cotton Gin on the northern states. To sum up my points, the Cotton Gin will continue to thrive due to benefit it brought to the people in northern and southern

Slavery and Its Impact on Both Blacks and Whites Slavery and Its Impact on Both Blacks and Whites The institution of slavery was something that encompassed people of all ages, classes, and races during the 1800's. Slavery was an institution that empowered whites and humiliated and weakened blacks in their struggle for freedom. In the book, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, slave Frederick Douglass gives his account of what it was like being a slave and how he was affected. Additionally, Douglass goes even further and describes in detail the major consequences the institution of slavery had on both blacks and whites during this time period. In the pages to come, I hope to convince you first of the mental/emotional and

In 1793 Eli Whitney revolutionized America’s South with his invention of the cotton gin machine. This machine separated the cotton rapidly, without the need of having slaves take out individual cotton that took a lifetime thus causing many injuries. The cotton gin was such a big success that it

The expansion of slavery in the 1800s was a brutal and sad time in our country’s history. Through the readings of Johnson and Rothman, along with other lesson materials, it is apparent that the effects of the Louisiana Purchase, the War of 1812, along with the complicit behavior from the U.S., largely impacted slave trade and lives of many slaves that were forced from the East to the Deep South and Southwest.

I can't believe that Southerner's had gotten slaves to get cotton. Slavery had a big impact of the cotton rise because they were treated miserable and they always had to go work and they would sometimes lie about being sick or had something to do because they were tired. Slave's had a miserable life with the time of the cotton gins. They had been whipping if they haven't done the right thing. Children would be separated from their families. They don't have much what they get from their work. They never got new cloths only once a year. And they would work hard every single day and get noting for it. And have to live in pain.

What is shaping the economy of Alabama is cotton and slavery labor. Cotton is the most profitable cash crops in Alabama. The rise of cotton kingdom in the agricultural factory makes Alabama more economically independent. The profits in the state draws planters to invest in slaves and lands to grow more cotton, in return they buy even more slaves and lands. A cycle that will keep reoccurring. Slaves are sold in pair, man and wife to cultivate the land to produce four times the revenues. As cotton grows, the land value increases. An acre that costs $200 can sell for $4000 in a spam of twelve months because of slavery labor.