Slavery wasn't addressed too much at the Constitutional Convention
because they thought slavery would "die of its own weight." However, the
invention of the cotton gin changed all that. Land that was used for slave labor
was limited until cotton. Cotton plantations spread west from the south. The
cotton states were Alabama and Mississippi, then up the Mississippi River
into Tennessee. It moved down into North Central Florida as well as Louisianna,
Arkansas, Kentucky, and Missouri. In 1820, cotton replaces tobacco as the US
cash crop. The "cotton culture" made it imperative for slavery to be in affect in the
southern states. Without the slaves to labor the cotton crops, the southernors
would ha
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