How did the invention of the cotton gin affect slave labor in the united states?

a. there was a forced migration of slaves from the south to the north.

b. slave-owning cotton planters were gradually forced to sell their plantations.

c. more slaves were purchased to work on cotton plantations in the south.

d. the reduced need for labor on cotton plantations led to a decline in slavery.

e. slaves were moved from cotton plantations to sugar plantations.

C. is the correct answer; although Eli Whitney did not intend increase slavery that is what he ended up doing.

according to the quotation from booker t. washington's 1895 atlanta compromise speech.

in the great leap from slavery to freedom . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . we shall prosper . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor.

washington believed that  hard work had its own kind of dignity.

explanation:

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- a.) african slaves and indentured servant’s

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