Western Civilization II / Unit 9 WC2 0817 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Cotton's Other End: Slavery in the American South
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The idea
British mills ran on cotton from the slave South. After the trade ban of eighteen-oh-seven the enslaved population grew by natural reproduction under complete subservience, and output rose, the anchor says, through brutality rather than technology, the cotton gin of seventeen ninety-four the exception.
In practice
Unit 04's slave trade feeding unit 09's factories.
Where people slip
The transatlantic tie is the anchor's emphasis and the record.
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