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What where cotton fields and how did they impact america at the time of the middle passage

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Answer: cotton fields where field of the cotton plant for years they were gathered by mainly slaves or workers until

Eli Mitty and Robert Munger created the cotton gin which helped remove all the seeds this helped them stretch the cotton fiber then semstrests would then make them into clothing so all cotton did was make people welthy and make clothes soft.

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Cotton transformed the United States, making fertile land in the Deep South, from Georgia to Texas, extraordinarily valuable. ... This created a Second Middle Passage, the second largest forced migration in America's history. To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South.
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