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Priоr tо аrоund 1800, slаvery аppeared to be dying a natural death in the United States. Many northern states had outlawed the practice, manumission was on the rise, and many Americans saw that the institution ran counter to the new nation’s ideals (such as liberty). However, [BLANK-1] began around the turn of the century and breathed new life into the institution. Innovations to a gin machine that deseeded raw materials and the development of a new strain known as Petit Gulf made a previously impractical crop the Lower South’s most important cash crop. The process of Indian Removal throughout the 1820s and 1830s, and the abundance of cheap land that had previously been owned by Native Americans, further fueled this resurgence of slavery. These changes made slavery more integral than ever to the southern economy and worsened the divide between the North and the South.
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