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Slavery in the south

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The invention of the cotton gin revived slavery in a remarkable way. Suddenly, one gin could clean 50 pounds of cotton per day. Cotton thrived in the South and with this one invention, the economy of the south was not only revived but also revolutionized. The slave movement to the South was so immense Chesapeake planters could sell their slaves and pay for new crops at the same time. Slavery grew in popularity and the center of slavery (Murrin 258) in the 18th century, South Carolina and Georgia, recommitted to slave labor. The hope of the Revolutionary War diminished as farmers found ways to utilize slaves. Slavery was more established and sustainable in the South at this time than it ever was in the North previously. The growth of slavery and the loyalty it garnered from southern planters was no doubt an unfortunate consequence of the cotton gin. Without the gin or slaves, no plantations in Antebellum South would have profited. The profits, however, were to be short-lived in the moments preceding the war. However, these profits and the plantation owners reaction to them illustrate the frail nature of man. Here we see men driven by profits and lifestyle.