Slavery is Entrenched

Cotton was a main factor of why slavery was entrenched in the early 19th century. In class we went to the computer lab and did a activity online. We looked through a website that had a timeline of how slavery was changing overtime and the growth of the cotton crops. We took notes at each time stop in the timeline. 

Cotton was rapidly growing and earning so much money, by the 1860s cotton was up to $191,800,000! Since the production of cotton was growing the cotton gin was created. The cotton gin was a machine that got the seeds out of cotton efficiently and effectively. It was blades that pushed out the seeds for softer and seedless cotton. This made production faster and made the cotton softer and cleaner! 

People thought slavery was "declining" in the late 18th century because slaves were being freed and escaping. But that was not the case slavery was actually increasing, "Between 1792, when Whitney invented the cotton gin, and 1794, the price of slaves doubled. By 1825, field hands, who had brought $500 apiece in 1794, were worth $1,500. As the price of slaves grew, so, too, did their numbers. During the first decade of the nineteenth century, the number of slaves in the United States rose by 33 percent; during the following decade, the slave population grew another 29 percent" this shows how slavery was increasing.