Chapter 13 By Spartan1223 Period: Jan 1, 1775 to Jan 1, 1900 Chapter 13 May 3, 1791 production of cotton is about 2 million pounds May 3, 1793 Eli Whitney perfects cotton gin May 4, 1795 Toussaint L'Ouverture's Haitian revolution starts May 4, 1800 Gabriel Prosser planned a rebellion May 4, 1803 First steam powered sawmill built May 3, 1808 Congress made bringing slaves to the US illegal May 4, 1822 Denmark Vesey planned slave uprising May 4, 1831 Nat Turner started Nat Turner's Rebellion Aug 4, 1831 Nat Turner led a group of slaves to kill slave holders and their families Nov 11, 1831 Nat Turner died May 3, 1839 a slave discovered a way to improve the drying process for tobacco May 4, 1849 A young Georgia man wrote that he desired to be a farmer May 3, 1858 James Henry Hammond declares "cotton is king" May 3, 1860 production of cotton is about a billion pounds May 4, 1860 More than 250,000 free African Americans lived in the South