00:00In 1793, one machine was invented to end slavery forever. Instead, it enslaved 2.5 million more
00:08people. Eli Whitney built the cotton gin, a machine that could process cotton 50 times faster
00:14than any human. Everyone assumed this would make slavery obsolete. Economists said it.
00:21Newspapers said it. They were catastrophically wrong. Cotton demand didn't slow down,
00:26it exploded. Plantations spread from Georgia to Texas virtually overnight. And in just 30 years,
00:33the number of enslaved people in America jumped from 700,000 to 3.2 million. Not because of a war,
00:40not because of a law, because wealthy men chose maximum profit over human life.
00:46Every bank in New York financed it. Every cotton mill in England depended on it.
00:52The modern world didn't happen despite slavery. It happened because of it. The people who profited
00:59most from this system were never held accountable. Not one. The full documentary is on YouTube.
01:06Link in bio. This was just one chapter.
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