Eli Whitney's Cotton Plantation

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In the beginning, it started with the Birth of King Cotton and expanded to the cotton and slavery and etc. Also it spreaded to the Slave Community, and The Life on a Cotton Plantation. It started with the Birth of King Cotton, But first the cotton was in high demand. The Northern State and also Great Britain, the textile industry was quickly expanding in the plantations. “Women and also children worked to manufactur[e] cloth to sell for profit”. “Many observers were confident that cotton was the most logical choice for a successful cash crop”. This expanded to Whitney’s Cotton Gin, which by the way was Eli Whitney’s ideas.

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