Neptune discovery telescope. The telescope at New Berlin Observatory (1835â1913), that discovered Neptune, was an achromatic refractor of 9 Paris inch (9.6 English inches or 24.4 cm) aperture made by the late Joseph Fraunhofer's firm, Merz und Mahler.
The southern states needed these slaves because the southern states had more farms and plantations than the North did. Not everyone could afford slaves; slaves were really expensive. They were expensive to buy because they had to be feed and taken care of.
These are jobs that white people would not do-slaves kept the economy going. They made little or no money while the plantation owners became wealthy. The cotton gin was also significant to slavery and the economy: The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 gave slavery a new life in the United States. Between 1800 and 1860, slave-produced cotton expanded from South Carolina and Georgia to newly colonized lands west of the Mississippi.