This document discusses the history and impact of cotton and slavery in the United States. It covers the arrival of slavery, different types of cotton, the population of slaves, the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793, the role of cotton planters, and how cotton became known as "King Cotton" due to its economic importance in the 19th century southern United States.

1. King Cotton Presented by: Xavier Adams

2. Slavery

3. Arrival

4. Types of Cotton

5. Population of Slaves

6. Cotton Gin

7. Planters

8. Benefits

9. King Cotton

10. Cotton "It was work hard, git beatins and half fed ... . The times I hated most was pickin' cotton when the frost was on the bolls. My hands git sore and crack open and bleed."--Mary Reynolds, Slave Narrative from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

11. Video http://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/videos/king_cotton_and_the_cotton_gin

12. Source Jean M. Westhttp://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_cotton.htm