These hurricane tracks represent the cruelty faced by the slaves. Interestingly, along with the hurricane, in the backdrop, there are the Historic Hurricane tracks of the United States between the years 1842-2020. Never before or since has a single commodity so dominated the American economy, and the vast majority of that commodity was being produced with slave labor. economy that year by export sales of all sorts, agricultural and industrial. economy, and it notes that the $75 million generated that year by cotton exports represented 49% of all of the money brought into the U.S. Thus, to take the single year 1830 as an example, the left graph shows you that the United States produced about 1.5 billion pounds of cotton that year, while the right-hand side graph shows you that the sale of cotton abroad in 1830 brought about $75 million into the U.S. exports accounted for in each year by cotton alone. cotton exports and notes the percentage of all U.S. The right graph charts the increasing monetary value of U.S. The left graph charts the total amount of cotton produced annually in the United States (in ten-year intervals), amounts that exceeded 2 billion pounds per year by the 1850s. The timeline increases from bottom to top. These graphs show the spectacular growth of cotton as a commercially significant crop in the United States. "The Huge Hurricane in the middle is disguised by two graphs. □□ Architecture alumnus and current doctoral student Raja Manikam Bandari recently won an honorable mention in Envisioning Research Contest for his graphic titled "The Spread of Cotton and Slavery."
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