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Cotton
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Economic and Historical Impact
Cotton has profoundly shaped global economics, labor systems, and geopolitical power structures, most notoriously in the context of chattel slavery in the American South. The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 mechanized the separation of seed from fiber, dramatically increasing productivity and inadvertently solidifying the economic reliance on enslaved labor [6].
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