Due to the invention of the cotton gin, cotton plantations greatly expanded in the fertile Black Belt of Georgia in the early 1800s. These plantations relied on the labor of enslaved people to be profitable yet Congress banned the Atlantic slave trade in 1808. What was the result of this ban in Georgia?
O A Cotton plantations became unprofitable in Georgia and by 1840 cotton was largely missing from the state's economy
o B. Georgian plantation owners gradually shifted from cotton to tobacco production, which required less labor to be profitable.
OC Enslaved people were brought south from the Carolinas and Virginia to work on the plantations nearly doubling the slave population by 1840
o D. The law was weakly enforced and ignored by slave traders so the number of enslaved people imported through the port in Savannah nearly doubled.