During the antebellum period, the North produced most of the cotton in the US and European markets, facilitated by Eli Whitney's cotton gin invention, leading to the intertwining of slavery and cotton in the Southern economy.
The North produced most of the cotton for the US and European markets during the antebellum period. Farmers in the Northern states engaged in the production of cotton, not fruit.
The invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin in 1793 played a significant role in making large-scale cotton agriculture profitable and led to the rapid expansion of cotton production in the South, transforming it into a region of economic growth built on slave labor.
By the 1850s, slavery and cotton had become intertwined, with cotton being the foundation of the Southern economy and a major product that the South marketed internationally.
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