Eli Whitney was born in December 8, 1765 through January 8, 1825 in Westborough, Massachusetts. Parented by his father, Eli Whitney Sr., a farmer and his mother, Elizabeth Whitney (Fay). In Eli’s childhood, he grew up in a farm, since his father was a farmer, but he started gaining interest for machine work and technology. His mother would later on die in 1777. Further into his youth, Eli had acquired lot of experience making nails from a device of his own invention and operated his father’s profitable nail manufacturing operation during the revolutionary war. Eli was interested in getting a proper education and study law; his stepmother was against Eli’s desire to go to college, so he would then work as a farm laborer and became a school…show more content… With the large amounts of cotton being produced, there was a need for more slave labor, the invention also change slavery in the southern states as well. The cotton gin was capable of producing and cleaning around fifty pound of cotton per day. A slave was could clean only a pound(less than half a kilo-gram) a day. This would release slaves from a more strenuous labor of separating the cotton’s seeds from the lint with their hands. Plantations had started to increase the amount of cotton they grow it .Because of this increased demand for more slaves were needed to grow cotton and harvest the fields. The total population of slaves in the south before the introduction of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, was around seven hundred thousand slaves, soon after in 1850 the population had then increased to three million slaves. As slaves increased in plantations, gang labor had spawned into plantations, where a group of slaves were combined into a work group, which were deployed to the cotton fields, were then supervised by a single white person. Previously, there was mainly shepherding, in which it was the continuous…show more content… Back then cotton was not a really an essential crop; because, mainly it required a lot of work to make thread from the cotton lint. In addition it a big deal of labor to plant, maintain, and pick the cotton. Although, the cotton gin gave the crop to have more value, which resulted in a lot of profit was produced in plantation. Whitney had never became rich with the invention of the cotton gin. I would still result in cotton being the main crop of America. In 1790, it was estimated that the cotton gin had produced around 1,500 pounds of cotton. By the beginning of the eighteen century, it had reached around thirty-five thousand pounds. In 1845, production had started creating millions of pounds of cotton. As time as passed the worth of cotton had increased, in 1770, cotton had estimated to be around 600,000 euros ($638,070 (US)), in 1805, it had started growing to 10,500,000 euros ($11,166,225 (US)).In 1870 it was an estimated it was even worth 38,800,000 euros(41,261,860 (US)). Compared to silk starting at 1,000,000 euro ($1,063,450(US)) in the ending of the 17th century, to 8,000,000 (8,507,600(U.S)), in the end of 1850 and wool starting at 7,000,000 euros ($7,444,150(US)) in the end of the 17th century , to around 25,400,000 euros ($27,011,630(US)) in the ending of
