Answer:
With more cotton being grown, there was a greater need for slaves.
Step-by-step explanation:
What was it about cotton that made it so appealing? Tobacco, one of America's oldest crops, was depleting lands and decreasing in value in the 1790s. At the same time, the textile industry in the United Kingdom was booming, producing a huge demand for cotton apparel on the worldwide market. Eli Whitney's cotton gin, which extracted cotton fiber from seeds with ease, was only a cog in a worldwide economic engine. Slavery was the fuel for it. Plantation owners in the South, banks in the North, maritime merchants, and the textile industry in Great Britain all benefitted from the cotton economy. Cotton revolutionized the United States, elevating the value of rich land in the Deep South, from Georgia to Texas. With more cotton being grown, there was a greater need for slaves. Because of the need for slaves in the Deep South, slaves in the Upper South were extremely valuable commodities. They were sold in large numbers. This resulted in the Second Middle Passage, America's second-largest forced migration. More than a million African Americans were transported to the Deep South to feed "King Cotton." That's more than double the amount of Africans who were transported to the United States.