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What would have happened if the cotton gin was never invented?

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What Ben said. Plus: * Earlier industrialization in the South. * Greater labor-driven immigration to the South from European diasporas (i.e. Irish Catholic, Ashkenazi Jewish, Southern Europe). read more

If anything, as White Americans became more hostile to the growth of free Africans (sans the cotton gin) "taking their jobs", and as free African people like Paul Cuffee found prosperity in the shipping business and urban jobs, President Thomas Jefferson would have seen more rationale in supporting deportation of the "excess" of free Africans from the Upper South to Sierra Leone. read more

Its much easier to image that the cotton gin is delayed in being invented until the twentieth century like many other mechanical farm inventions rather than never being created. Without the cotton gin in the 1800s it would probably have a damping effect on the demand for slaves. read more

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