In the antebellum period, U.S. cotton production

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The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 made it easier to separate cotton fibers from their seeds, which significantly reduced the labor needed to process cotton. This innovation made cotton cultivation much more profitable and led to an expansion of cotton production into the inland and western areas of the Southern United States, where land was available for large-scale cotton plantations.

In the Antebellum Period, U.S. Cotton Production