https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w Made with the help of a typing monkey en-us 2017-02-01 20:42:25 UTC 2026-03-10 19:11:40 UTC hello@padlet.com paigeg3111 https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/150988382 Eli Whitney created the first cotton gin , it separated the seeds from the short staple cotton. The gin increased cleaning cotton by 50 times faster then the average human ]]> 2017-02-01 20:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/150988382 paigeg3111 https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/150992552 There were 5 main types of slavery there was forced labor, bonded labor, sex slaves, child slavery, and domestic slavery. ]]> 2017-02-01 21:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/150992552 paigeg3111 https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151305485 Plantations were big beautiful houses with ton of land for farming were many white rich families lived ]]> 2017-02-02 21:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151305485 paigeg3111 https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151306962 Slaves worked on plantations to produce cotton during the cotton boom. Life for them was not easy they were not aloud to be legally married, if someone did something they had a chance of getting whipped ]]> 2017-02-02 21:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151306962 paigeg3111 https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151307816 2017-02-02 21:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151307816 paigeg3111 https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151308029 The cotton belt was a region of the Southern United States were cotton was the predominate cash crop ]]> 2017-02-02 21:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151308029 paigeg3111 https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151308741 The climate for the south was ideal for crops they had fertile soil and not very harsh winters they mainly grew cotton ,indigo, rice, sugarcane, and tobacco. As for the north they had harsh winters, fast rivers , a short farmming season so they mainly stuck to trading centers . The most popular crop in the North was tobacco ]]> 2017-02-02 21:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151308741 paigeg3111 https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151309740 The steel plow made farming and growing crops much easier. ]]> 2017-02-02 21:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151309740 paigeg3111 https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151310117 " Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves" - Abraham Lincoln. I think Lincoln is saying ask yourself why are you putting these harmless people through hard labor when you would not go and do it yourself. "I must get my soul back from you; i am killing my flesh without it"- Sylvia Plath, I think Plath is trying to say is if all these people are working to death they might as well be fighting for something. ]]> 2017-02-02 21:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/151310117 paigeg3111 https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/152021355 2017-02-07 02:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/152021355 paigeg3111 https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/152021431 2017-02-07 02:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/paigeg3111/le8x9oy6qc3w/wish/152021431