Technology developed after Smith's writing changed the calculus. The cotton gin made wide-scale cotton cultivation far more lucrative, and drove American slaver

Technology developed after Smith's writing changed the calculus. The cotton gin made wide-scale cotton cultivation far more lucrative, and drove American slavery: https://historyincharts.com/the-impact-of-the-cotton-gin-on-slavery/ https://historyincharts.com/the-impact-of-the-cotton-gin-on-... Without the cotton gin, chattel slavery would have probably ended at least one generation earlier in the US