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Across
  1. 3. The cotton gin separated these from their sticky seeds
  2. 5. Demand for enslaved _______ grew massively after the cotton gin was invented
  3. 8. The side Abraham Lincoln led during the Civil War
  4. 9. The crop that became "King" of the Southern economy
  5. 11. A change or addition to the United States Constitution
  6. 12. What slave owners tried to prevent by stripping enslaved people of their identity
  7. 13. Large farm where enslaved people were forced to grow crops like cotton or tobacco
  8. 14. Often torn apart at auction, with members sold to different buyers
Down
  1. 1. A formal public announcement, like the one Lincoln issued in 1863
  2. 2. What cotton became after the invention of the gin
  3. 4. What was stripped away when enslaved people were given new names and banned from speaking their languages
  4. 6. Surname of the inventor who created the cotton gin in 1793
  5. 7. Where enslaved Africans were sold to the highest bidder after arriving in the Americas
  6. 10. The act of setting someone free from slavery
  7. 15. The cotton gin separated fibres from these