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if Eli Whitney knew creating the cotton gin would increase slavery in the united states do you think he would still have created it?

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I think he wouldn't have because the whole reason he made it other than profit was to reduce the labor removing seeds for the slaves.

So inferring by this imma say he wouldn't have made it because despite the fact he owned slaves the purpose of the gin was to reduce labour

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