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Cotton sold for about 10 cents a pound until the 1840s when it jumped to $1.20. originally cotton was not very profitable only being able to produce 1 pound of clean cotton every 10 hours until the cotton gin was invented making it easier to clean cotton to send to the textile mills, but with the cotton gin it allowed for plants to produce thousands of pounds of cotton each day. making cotton extremely profitable. a couple of groups profited from the cotton trade like plantation owners in the South, banks in the North, shipping merchants, and the textile industry in Great Britain. to the plantation owners cotton was a saving grace due to the fact that the tobacco industry was slowly depleting making it harder to sell and people were already growing cotton before the gin but with the gin it made everything easier. and to the textile managers it gave them a new material to make use of giving them an even wider market then they had. 40% of the workers in northern factories were children and they were almost always underpaid for the fact that they are children so it was most likely a very small percentage of profit went to the 'workers'

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Conditions were difficult and exposed employees to many risks and dangers, including cramped work areas with poor ventilation, trauma from machinery, toxic exposures to heavy metals, dust, and solvents. on average the pay was about 500 a year. the people who usually worked in the factories were Children and women because most of the bosses want smaller hands so they could reach into small places to operate the machines at a more efficient pace rather than a big man with sausage fingers slowly working the machines. migrant workers were also heavily used in factories most immigrants were of Irish origin. most workers were women in the factories making the primary gender Female.

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While many textiles were purchased from US factories by those within the US, but many other times textiles would be bought by Europeans. These goods would be shipped from ports in the New England region to ports in Europe where they would find their way to consumers. Many of these factories though had to ship their product from their location in the Midwest and would usually take a canal such as the Eerie Canal in order to get to the ports of the Northeast.

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While most of the cotton was grown in the south of the United States due to the better climate most of the textile manufacturing took place in the North of the US due to there being a larger population. Many of these Factories employed young non married women and children as they were cheaper than many male workforces. Famously this was used by a mill in Lowell Massachusetts who would create a community for young women having them work during the day and be educated at night.

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During the market revolution the primary forms of transportation were steamboats they would use the Mississippi river and the Erie canal to transport cotton from southern farmlands to the northern textile factories. before this cotton was transported from city to city by smaller less efficient boats.

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Cotton was a very labor-intensive crop to farm and many white plantation owners resorted to the use of many different types of labor. King among these was slave labor which saw the use of African Americans as a forced labor force treating them horribly and not considering them human but property. Indentured servants were also used usually in higher-skill jobs. Many of those forced into indentured servitude were migrating to the US or owed a debt of some sort.

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this is a cotton gin it was invented in 1794 it is used to filter seed from the fiber of the cotton which made it faster to sell and produce clean cotton usually cotton was harvested during summer.

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Cotton was concentrated in the american south and by extension most enslaved African Americans were concentrated in the American south. Many of these cotton farms were located it what became known as the black belt which was an area of the country where a majority of the cotton was grown. It was called the black belt due to its abnormally high proportion of Black slaves.