Negatives: What harm was caused?
- Farmers began to grow more cotton on their plantations which in result caused non-fertile soil
- It caused the need for slaves to increase in the south of the United States
- Slaves never stopped working the machine unless they became unconcious or because of death
- As a slave working this machine became torture
- other inventors copied his work which casused him to lose profit
- farmers resented paying an "exorbitant" tax
- Southern Slaves: maintaining slavery was the main motivation for Southern Secession 1860 and 1861
- the increase of how much cotton could be picked
- produced a cash crop for the South which increased the demand for slave labor
- set back for the abolitionist movement
- Eli Whitney's invention made many Southern Planters rich and he did not reap any benefits
- men and women were forced to do equal work in the cotton field and if they did not succeed they were whipped