Introduction- An eccentric lifestyle, blossoming governmental infrastructure, and economic prosperity; these are things that most people would gladly accept an abundance of in our modern society. Yet, would you sacrifice the wellbeing of others lives to achieve this? For example, taking someone from their homeland, treating them as we treat farm animals today, and treating them as a piece of property rather than a human being. These are the things that many African Americans had to endure when the cotton market was rapidly growing in the southern United States. The sudden popularity, and interest to this cash crop is created to Eli Whitney’s innovation of the cotton gin. Was Eli Whitney's invention of the Cotton Gin a progressive innovation,
