This week has been full of slave labor talk. The change in the cotton production and the labor of slaves. The invention that changed the cotton production was the cotton gin this invention sped up the cleaning process. Then there was the power loom, this invention sped up the weaving process. These inventions cause the owner of these work camps to put more slaves in the field, this sped up the amount of time it took to pick cotton. The cotton was mostly used for cloth, at this time the west of the world only used cloth. This week I learned that no one truly knows if slaves were well fed or not. Nobody kept up with the amount of food given to slaves on a daily. I learned that historians take the height change of slaves over the years and estimate how much food they were given on a daily basis. I concluded that this change in growth came with maturity and the genetics of the slaves origin. I learn that Alabama boomed because slave owners needed more fields to grow more cotton. In these fields slaves were taught to work with both hands. Also I learned that pilgrims didn't just come for religious freedom, but for a new start without being under the power of the church.