English 2308E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cotton Gin, Force-Feeding, Triangular Trade
18 Dec 2016
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From america to europe to britain and africa. Selling slaves for guns and then selling those guns for slaves, a repetitive. Incidents in the life of a slave girl. Prevalent in the colonies since day 1. Very large in the south due to climate, they were used to pick crops. 19th century: triangular trade process between 3 different countries. About 15 million africans arrived alive in the americas, manny more died on the trip. More than 3 million slaves in the u. s. south. Jefferson"s original draft of declaration freed the slaves, but they later removed that section. Eli whitney invents the cotton gin (1791) Then one powered by animals, 50 times more effective. So this had large affect, it created a bottleneck in the process, was now about how much they could grow rather than how much they could pick the seeds from (human labour) 100,000 pounds exported, 9 years later up to 41 million pounds exported.
