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American cotton grew in two specific varieties known as black seed cotton and

green seed cotton, with very different economic value. Black seed cotton fibers were

long and relatively easy to separate by hand from their seeds; green seed cotton on the

other hand, produced much shorter, stickier fibers that were so difficult and painstakingly

slow to hand separate that the maximum possible output could probably not have

supported the high cost of procuring and transporting African slaves to the American

continent, notwithstanding the fundamental moral issues militating against the institution

of slavery in the first place

Black seed cotton grew only in the coastal southern states; the inland states were

limited to growing green seed cotton, exclusively. When Whitney introduced his cotton

gin, it transformed the profitability of growing green seed cotton practically overnight by

increasing the amount of cotton fiber that could be separated from seed by several factors

of ten (Lakwete 2004). The immediate result was a dramatic increase in cotton

production and in the number of southern plantations eager to fill the needs of the rapidly

growing textile industry, both on the American continent as well as in European

countries, such as Britain, in particular.

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