How did Eli Whitney's cotton gin change the legacy of the South during the Antebellum
Period?

The cotton gin set the South on a path of agricultural expansion dependent upon the use of slave labor. Whitney's manufacturing methods fueled the industrial development of the North. In the 1860s, the inevitable collision between the two systems resulted in the bloodbath of the American Civil War.

he didn't think it was ethically wrong. he thought it was not going to work and it was not going to be of any assistance. he wrote about that in his memoirs.

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