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GCSE History · key term
Cotton with relatively short fibres and sticky seeds. It could grow across much of the southern United States, but removing its seeds by hand was slow.
Used by OCR
Paper 3
Revise: Plantations and slaveryShort-staple cotton could grow much more widely across the South. Its sticky seeds were difficult to remove by hand, so preparing it for sale required a great deal of labour. This limited its profitability.
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