... owners (Welch 32), even Ulysis S. Grant, a prominent general in the Civil War had a slave (Jordon 12)". The invention of the cotton gin made it possible to easily separate the cotton seed, "[ ] this made slavery in the South more profitable, slavery then became an important part of the Southern economy and soon became an institution that Southerners felt bound to protect (Harrison ... elections. There were some people in the north that thought slavery was wrong and others didn't care, and some even liked it because if it was abolished it would be bad for the economy. Slaves didn't have ...

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