Launching A New Nation- Cotton Gin

Dear Journal,

I's her masa yeseday murnin talkin bout a new tool dat a man by the name of Eli Whitney comes up wit. Dey say it picks the cotton seeds right out of da cotton itself. Now I's know I has to see this to believe it. Seems like a slaves dream dun comes true. Fo forty-five yurs now I dun grown da cotton, picks the cottons and moves da seeds from da cotton. Seems as though to me even if dis "cotton gin" is to exist masa wont be allowing it on dis her land. He takes great pride in his slaves and dey work, so anythang to help dem out of da work he aint gonna consider. He may not consider it but thanks God we makin progress in the south, soon enough old man Eli gon come up with somethang to picks the cotton so the slaves don't have to, that's what I's waitin on. Well her comes masa I besta be goin to sleep.

Sincerely, Jawana-slave by day free soul by night

During this time the U.S. had a lot of potential and their focus was to keep progressing no matter what. They learned to work together and work hard but soon enough as all good things come to and end so was this "working together" theme. The north grew jealous of the south because of its new addition of states which would probably become slave states. The south didn't care about the north because they were already outnumbered in the Congress, so they needed the extra addition of slave states. Neither the north or the south was depending on one another for anything so at the point in time the nation was split. A nation is a group of people working for a cause to better their country and bring happiness to their people, in my opinion. So if one were to ask would I consider the U.S. a nation during this period I would have to answer no. There were to many split views on situations that needed to be resolved without everyone fighting.