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One paragraph explaining how the cotton gin affected slavery in the United States.

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Cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds , it does not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton. The opposite occured. Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased thier demand for both land and slave labor.

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