Plantations & Slavery Spread
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin
The Cotton Gin Cleans Cotton Faster:
It removed the seeds from the fibers
Cotton Crops Increased
To Grow More Cotton The South
Needed More Land & Slaves
Resisting Slavery by meeting
secretly at night
Hidden Resistance
in the Bible’s story of Moses
Resistance Through Religion &
Family
Resisting Slavery by armed
rebellion: Like Turner’s Rebellion
Resistance By Escaping
8% of Southern Blacks were free
House Servants & Craftsmen
Plantations & Slavery
Review
 Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin increased the
production of cotton
 Increased cotton meant increased slavery
 Slaves resisted by…
 Rebelling like Nat Turner
 Relying on family & religion for strength
 Running away to escape slavery
 A small number of Southern blacks were free