Slavery in the South was slowly but surely declining in the late 1700's and early 1800's due to the fall of tobacco, people were starting to lose profits and therefore slaves. Between 1800 and 1860, however, a new king came to rule replacing tobacco, cotton was the new king. This, the cultivation of cotton, along with the expansion of land and the slave trade itself, contributed to the reemergence of slavery during this time period. The changes were so great that Alabama, which once had a slave population of 41,000 to an incredibly high 435,000 slaves, slaves were needed and were in high demand between 1800 and 1860 with the textile industry in Great Britain and Booming New England. Cotton, once a very difficult and complicated crop to grow due to its many seeds attached to the fibers, has become a smooth, factory-like product with the help of the cotton gin. Cotton was so important that it made up two-thirds of the $200 million total. The cotton gin, thanks to Eli Whitney, helped remove the seeds faster, and not as laboriously as before, this resulted in faster and greater production. A greater product offering means a greater workforce is needed to grow alongside the workforce, in this case called “King Cotton”. The majority of the workforce was made up of slaves, and the invention of the cotton gin led to greatly expanding the amount of slavery in the South. The more slaves were brought in to grow cotton, the more involved Southern planters became in agriculture. This strong attachment and dependence on cotton led to the poor establishment of the industry in the South. The total value of Southern textiles, for example, amounted to about $4.5 million in 1860, which may seem impressive but it is r... half of paper.... The slave trade sought to further increase and expand legally advocating one's right to purchase slaves in Cuba, Brazil, or even Africa; this was discussed in Southern trade conventions and was specifically raised by William L. Yancey of Alabama. Cotton was becoming plentiful and planters needed slaves to harvest it, so the need for slaves drove the slave trade and greatly increased the amount of slaves in the South during the first half of the 1800s. Just as slavery was starting to decline, The South discovered a way to recapture it with the discovery of the cotton gin, allowing it to quickly recover from the death of tobacco. The growth of slavery in the first half of the 1800s was also aided by land expansion and the cruel but profitable slave trade, which prolonged the misery of the black population of the South..