It was about freeing the slaves to destroy their political opponents income, finance, and power.
The cotton gin had already been invented and deployed
The confederate constitution bans the purchase of new slaves.
It was signed in before the "freeing" of the northern UNION slaves.
The gin didn't pick the cotton.
YES IT DID. I am from Alabama sir.
Cotton grows like a thick ball connected to a plant and seeds.
It is fucking useless if someone walks out into a field and grabs it and brings it back. USELESS.
You need workers if you will.... by the dozens, confined, forced to PICK at the cotton balls. With their fingers. 80 year old women, 3 year old children, don't matter, just chain them to a rail and force them to pick pick pick pick pick all day with their fingers. One fiber at a time, one strand of cotten at a time. pick pick pick.
The cotton gin removed the need for 99% of all slaves in the USA. Which caused the CSA to happen. The invasion of Virginia is an unforgiveable sin that will be repaid one day.
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