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Eli Whitney's cotton gin enabled one man to do the work of fifty.
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Eli Whitney's cotton gin automated cotton processing, allowing one person to do the work of many. This increased cotton production, but also led to increased demand for enslaved labor and further entrenched slavery in the American South.

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