1. Although many political leaders stated that they would like to see slavery slowly dissolve, why did this not occur? -Eli Whitney intended his cotton gin to help eliminate slave labor. Why did it in turn increase it?

- Eli Whitney intended his cotton gin to help eliminate slave labor. Why did it in turn increase it? Ans.: The dissolution of slavery became an unsuccessful attempt even after many leaders vowed to do it because the growing economy created the need to use slavery as a profitable sub-process under the growing production process. The case of Eli Whitney’s invention of cotton gin is a good example of this. It, on the one side, made the production process easier by quickly extracting cotton from cotton seeds, but on the other side created the need for more labor to quickly collect cotton seeds from the fields. Slavery became a tool to generate this intensive labor.