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How did the cotton gin make the harvesting of cotton more efficient?

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Because the cotton gin was a tool that helped make the production of cotton way faster than just picking it out.
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Therefore, by making cotton available faster, the slave master thought that ... Because the cotton gin made this faster and more efficient, the textile mills ... (slaves were cheaper than workers of either race), to harvest the cotton.
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