HIST 1376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Cash Crop, Upland South
25 Jul 2016
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Problem in society, have this obligation to relieve the issue to make a perfect society, mainly in the. Slavery is an labor system that were performed by the un-free africans. Different type of soil, hotter and longer growing season. Costal region of the deep south are going to be different from the interior. Determines your economy on how you can make your money. Labor system, dedicated to preserving the slave labor system. Much of their economy is losing their value. Issue: the cotton requires a lot of labor intensive process. 10 pounds of pick and clean cotton requires ten hours of their time. Eli whitney invented a little machine know as a cotton gen. 50 pound of cotton would be produced a day with the cotton gen. Most of the produced cotton are exported to the new england"s textile factory. Single most produced crop in the nation, changing the values of the production for the whites.
