Helpful+Statistics+from+the+Slavery+Era

1793: Invention of the cotton gin

1792-1817: Cotton production rises from 13,000-461,000 bales

1810-1860: Slave population rises from 1,000,000 to 3,000,000

1815-1860: 600,000-700,000 slaves sold from Upper South to Lower South; 30% chance of slaves being sold from US to LS

1820-1850 Depression of the Tobacco Market

1815-1819 1832-1837: Expansion of cotton; booming profits 1849-1860

1820-1832 1837-1848: Cotton prices fall and waves of bankruptcy 1860-1865

1840: 1.35 million bales of output

1850's: Cotton = 50% of American exports; only 5% of slaves involved in Southern industry

1860: 4.8 million bales of output