Buzzfeed: Trying to live for 72 hours without black inventions

What black inventions are they highlighting? Twerking?

I don’t want to give them clicks. What are the black inventions people are having to live without?

I’m dying

lol...because Shirley Jackson WORKED at bell labs, she gets credit for all of the phone systems in existence?

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cotton gin?

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Someone made a great argument on youtube that if not for the cotton gin being made, slaves on (cotton farms) would have ended quicker due to it not being profitable.

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cotton gin?

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Eli Whitney was black?

The amount of slaves required after the cotton gin dropped dramatically

As they write on computers, posted to the internet, expected to be read by cell phones, charged by alternating current...

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The amount of slaves required after the cotton gin dropped dramatically

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To the point that it was economically feasible for more than just the ultra rich to own enough slaves to make cotton cultivation profitable and to make cotton fabric cheap enough to be afforded by the masses, causing the demand to go through the roof.

Without the cotton gin, cotton cultivation largely remains a niche cash crop and likely takes a back seat to other crops like rice, indigo, and tobacco, and cotton clothing remains an expensive luxury up until the 1860's/70's when the British get their cotton-producing colonies of Egypt and India going full blast.