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in actual numbers, that’s an increase in annual production from 1.5 million pounds of cotton in 1790 to 35 million in 1800. ten years later annual production hits 85 million. and ten years after that it hits 160 million, accounting for a third of the nation’s export revenue — PolitiTweet.org

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was looking through stats on antebellum cotton production for this piece i’m working on and it was very striking to see the explosive rate of growth in the immediate wake of the cotton gin. something like a > twentyfold increase in production from 1793 to 1800. — PolitiTweet.org

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bracketing questions/debates over the contribution of slavery to american wealth and overall economic growth, those are still just wild numbers — PolitiTweet.org

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