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Originally Posted by Just Alex
I always thought mechanization reduced human labor. We must've been going to different colleges.
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yes we most certainly did attend different learning institutions.
here, i will explain to you what you are not grasping-
a cotton gin does not pick cotton. it separates cotton.
cotton picking was manual labor until the 1940s. to keep up with the speed of the cotton ginS, more slaves were needed to pick cotton.