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More enslaved people were needed to keep up with increased production as a result of the invention of

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Cotton gin

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it dramatically lowered the cost of producing cotton fiber. Formerly, workers (usually slaves) had separated the seeds from the lint by hand, painstaking work that required hours of work to produce a pound of lint. By mechanizing the process, the gin could produce more than 50 pounds of lint per day

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the cotton gin invented by eli whitney

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