As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin
a. fewer slaves were needed on the plantations.
b. short-staple cotton lost popularity.
c. slavery was reinvigorated in the South.
d. Thomas Jefferson predicted the gradual death of slavery.
e. the African slave trade was legalized.
c
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