Not really. Cotton couldn't be harvested at an industrial scale before the cotton gin; increasing the scale before that point didn't justify the cost. Slave labor was profitable once upon a time, but tobacco wasn't the cash crop it used to be.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1467597465792745483 …
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The cotton gin is a distraction (a deliberate one) since fact that ending atlantic slave trade would make domestic slave trade wealthier was understood before cotton gin invented. It's scapegoating a technology for what was a political and moral failure.
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