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[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Also Eli Whitney inventing the cotton gin to make extracting cotton less of a tedious and backbreaking process, which lead to a massive expansion in slavery plantations in the American South due to the increased output and profitability of the crop.

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