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Give 2 different ways that the cotton gin changed the economy of the South

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There demand for slaves increased dramatically.

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The invention of the cotton gin greatly increased the productivity of cotton harvesting by slaves. This resulted in dramatically higher profits for planters, which in turn led to a seemingly insatiable increase in the demand for more slaves.

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