Cause #1: The creation of the cotton gin/Slavery.
“The South and the Slavery Controversy” ~ 1793 – 1860 ~ If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.-Ralph.
A.P. U.S. History Notes Chapter 16: “The South and the Slavery Controversy” ~ 1793 – 1860 ~
The Peculiar Institution. “Cotton Is King!” Before the 1793 invention of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, slavery was a dying business, since the South was.
