Describe the roles of free men free women and slaves in athenian life

Free men could take part in politics, vote, and own property. Free women ran home and family. Enslaved workers labored on farms and in the mines, assisted artisans and worked in households.

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.