Was teaching about this today and we discussed how contingent this all was before the cotton gin - TN and KY seriously considered abolition. But then 20 years after NJ's abolition law, IL nearly legalized slavery in 1824.https://www.amazon.com/Confronting-Slavery-Antislavery-Politics-Nineteenth-Century/dp/0875806899/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=governor+edward+coles+slavery+illinois&qid=1613672606&sr=8-5 …
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Yep. Also, the Napoleonic Wars cut off Britain & the US from the world's #1 cotton exporter, Spain. Spanish cotton industry never recovered its position.
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