The creation of Eli Whitney revolutionized America and changed the way people valued others. The cotton-gin was a machine that removed the seeds from the cotton about fifty times faster than a slave per day. The cotton-gin mostly affected the eastern-southern part of America because of the large cotton farms. From 1800 to 1820 annual cotton production quadrupled and unfortunately the amount of slaves increased as well. In thirty years (1800 - 1830) the number of slaves doubled being 2 million. When the population of slaves increased, their price and the price of land was higher. Later, it was so expensive to have a cotton farm and slaves, that you needed to be extremely wealthy to have a high income from being a cotton farmer. The amount of
