During the Industrial Revolution, how did innovations in technology affect the labor of enslaved people in the United States?

The cotton gin made it much faster to separate seeds from cotton fibers, increasing the amount of cotton that could be processed. This made cotton more profitable and encouraged the expansion of cotton plantations across the South. Because growing and harvesting cotton still required extensive labor, plantation owners demanded greater numbers of enslaved workers. Thus, choice D is correct.

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