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Why were slaves owned by rich slave owning southerners?
Because the big slave owners usually were the owners of big cotton farms, which was the major - almost the only - export product of the Southern US States. Picking cotton at the time was a very labour-intensive job because it had to be done by hand before the invention of the cotton mill. Slaves were of course cheap labour, which was important to their owners as they had to compete against other low cost cotton-producing countries such as India and Egypt.
What was one reason some northern workers opposed the antislavery movement?
The northern workers worked in big factories and were interested in the mass production of cotton that the slaves did in the south. The workers needed the cotton from the south to keep their factories going. Therefore, they essentially needed slaves to keep their jobs.
Why were slaves sent to the Americans?
At one point in time the cotton industry was really big and so white Americans all wanted a part of it. To produce cotton you needed to own a plantation and have workers to pick the cotton. Most of the plantation owners did not want to pay their workers and since it wasn't illegal they thought it easier just to "buy" slaves to do the work for them.
How was cotton gathered on slave plantations?
At the beginning of the 19th century, cotton plantations dominated the agriculture of the Deep South. The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney fostered a more efficient way to harvest cotton. The invention removed seeds from the cotton plants which previously was done inefficiently by hand by slaves on the cotton plantations. The seeding of the cotton was still done by hand, however. The cotton gin would help gather the cotton plants' seeds. The cotton was planted in deep seeding patches anywhere from three to six feet apart. Cotton seeds were planted in April and were ready for harvest as soon as June.
How big are cotton seeds?
cotton seeds are very small
