HST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cotton Gin, Slave Codes, Nat Turner
7 Nov 2016
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Early 1700: most slaves had been born in africa -> worked primarily in the tobacco and rice fields of virginia, maryland, and the carolinas. 1700"s: slave population grows slowly in the u. s (mostly men) Late 1700"s: there were approximately 700,000 slaves in the u. s: by 1830: 2 million. Between 1790-1808: rapid importation of slaves from africa before the international slave trade is closed off to americans (by a constitutional provision) More sex ratios lead to a naturally increasing population. Needed more work to be done on cotton plantations (king cotton takes flight) *by 1820: most slaves had been born in the u. s. Industrial revolution (textile industry) fuels the expansion of slavery: the u. s had some of the best cotton growing land in the world. 1793: eli whitney"s cotton gin made the mass production of cotton possible. By 1860: cotton constituted 2/3"s of the u. s"s exports: the u. s was producing close to "s of the world"s supply of cotton.
