m Egypt, 32,537,600 lbs. |
1848. _Imports_ by Great Britain from-- |
West Indies and Demarara, lbs. 3,155,600 |
Brazil and Portuguese Colonies 40,080,400 |
East Indies, 91,004,800 |
_Imports_ by Great Britain from-- |
1849. East Indies, lbs. 72,800,000 |
1850. Do. 123,200,000 |
1852. Do. 84,022,432 |
1853. Do. 180,431,496 |
1854. Do. 119,835,968 |
1855. Do. 145,218,976 |
1856. _Imports_ by Great Britain from-- |
British East Indies, lbs. 180,496,624 |
Brazil, 21,830,704 |
Egypt, 34,399,008 |
1857. _Imports_ from-- |
Brazil, lbs. 29,910,832 |
Egypt, 24,532,256 |
1858. _Imports_ from Brazil, lbs. 18,617,872 |
Do. Egypt, 38,232,320 |
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Dates of Inventions promoting the growth and manufacture of
Cotton, and of movements to elevate the African race.

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1815. Power Loom first used in United States.
1816. First steamboat crossed the British Channel.
1816. Power Loom brought into general use in England.
1817. Colonization Society organized.
1819. Florida annexed.
1820. Slave trade declared piracy by Congress.
1820. Emigrants to Liberia first sent.
1821. Benjamin Lundy published his "Genius of Universal
Emancipation."
1823. United States export to France, 25,000,000 lbs.
1824. Do. do. do. 40,500,000 lbs.
1825. New York and Erie Canal opened.
Production and manufacture of cotton now greatly above the
consumption, and prices fell so as to produce general distress