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The Power of 50

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It takes 1 day to clean a 1 pound of cotton; The south relies on slaves to pick and process cotton on huge plantations

Eli Whitney creates the Cotton Gin in 1793

Mass production of clean cotton using a machine (Cotton Gin). Transforms America and the world

The Cotton GIn MAKES SLAVERY PAY!!!!!

1 man can now produce 50 pounds of cotton in a day.

By 1830 America produces 50% of the world’s cotton, by 1850 America produces 75% of the world’s cotton.

Each slave becomes 50 times more valuable

By 1850, of the 3.6 million slaves in the country’s fifteen slave states, 1.8 million were producing cotton (50%) This stat was calculated by Joseph Fodera who did the math in his head! ; by 1860, slave labor was producing over two billion pounds of cotton per year.

Southern states want to expand West and bring slavery with them. This leads to the Compromise of 1850