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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 1708652" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>No.  In fact many believe it increased the Souths determination to keep slavery.  The gin removed seeds from cotton, it did not pick it.  So after the gin was invented,  the South nearly tripled their output of cotton.  But that's the problem.   There is no business sense to it.  They could not see slavery as a broken system and did not put their profits into a less morally repugnant venture; research and development.   Because guess what-- eventually a cotton picking machine was indeed invented.   Silly hicks.</p></blockquote><p></p>