How Did The Cotton Gin Affect The Growth Of Slavery?

Are you to willing wake up early every morning to sit outside for hours and hours in the heat separating cotton seeds from cotton fibers? Well slaves didn’t have a choice until a us-born inventor named Eli Whitney came up with the idea of the cotton gin. For those who may not know, the cotton gin is a machine, invented on April in 1793, that separated cotton easier and faster than by doing it by hand. As a side note, Eli Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts, on December 8, 1765 and died in 1825. Eli Whitney came up with this invention to help slaves separate cotton seeds easier and faster from the cotton fibers. Now coming back to the problem that the cotton gin created such as the growth of slavery. Slavery, as all of you should know, is the keeping of a slave that does work for a higher-classed person. …show more content…
Slavery was a horrible event that happened in American history and it should have been abolished, not expanded. With that being said, the cotton gin also impacted the production of cotton in a good way. The cotton gin made it fifty times faster to separate cotton than by doing it by hand. Let me elaborate. It took one day to separate one pound of cotton by hand, but with the cotton gin, you can separate fifty pounds in a day. Since cotton was America’s main export, it was important that the production of cotton can be done easier and faster than before the invention. In conclusion, I want to recap that the cotton gin had positive and negative impacts on American history. The positive impact being that it made it less challenging to separate cotton in a shorter time and the negative impact being that it expanded slavery even though it should have been