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January 1808, the flow of new Africans into the USA and the Caribbean as slaves would stop forever. At the same time, the United States and the Caribbean were undergoing a rapid expansion of cotton, sugar cane, and rice production. The invention of the cotton gin enabled the profitable cultivation of short staple cotton, which could be produced more widely than other types. This led to the economic preeminence of cotton throughout the Deep South. Slaves were treated as a commodity by owners and traders alike and were regarded as the crucial labor for the production of lucrative cash crops that fed the triangular trade. With the end of the slave trade and the high mortality rates among slaves due to the back-breaking labor they were usually put through, the supply of slaves was running short. The slave masters needed a solution, and they needed it fast. With the route to Africa completely cut off, slaveholders would turn to something more sinister, an idea that could only be born in a mindset that saw humans as a commodity with no more rights than a cow or a horse. To add to the supply of slaves, slaveholders looked at the fertility of slave women as part of their productivity and intermittently forced the women to have large numbers of children.