Use these two words in a sentence in a way that shows their meaning and relationship. a. productivity b. domestic slave trade *

The cotton gin was a machine responsible for a significant amount of change in American society. This machine made it so that seeds could be picked from cotton at a much faster rate. This cotton gin lead to increased productivity on Southern plantations and also increased the amount of slaves exchanged between slave owners through the domestic slave trade.

"Increasing our domestic slave trade will increase our productivity on growing more crops, therefore we need more slave trade to produce more money."