Which statement is correct?
A) Slaves were owned by the majority of Southern whites.
B) The old Southern states held the majority of slaves even as the new cotton South expanded.
C) The increase in slave ownership was most dramatic in the relatively new cotton plantations.
D) Slavery vanished in the Middle colonies but not the North by the start of the Civil War.

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The increase in slave ownership was indeed most dramatic in the new cotton plantations, particularly as the cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 made cotton cultivation vastly more profitable, leading to a significant expansion of slavery in the South to meet the increased demand for labor.

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