Before the Industrial revolution, there was a largely poor class and a very small middle class. There was a big difference between the …show more content…
So, how can you do this but slavery? Do you know after the Cotton Gin increase production it also increases the amount of need for slaves and the amount of work? Slavery in the south at the beginning of the industrial revolution is said to increase from the 100 of thousands to the millions. Actual because of the cotton gin. It is ironic that something that could have the basic ideas of it from a slave increased slavery. Also, something that you would think that increase the production of something associated with slavery would lighten the load of it? The answer is No. It actual made slavery grow and condition for the slave worsen. It got to the point that one in three southern were a slave. Slavery in the south meant death, breaking up of families.mutilation. The life as a slave was horrific at the minimum. Slaves worked some time as much as over twenty hours in one day. The southerners would sell these cotton products to