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America Transformed: This statistical map addresses the importance of cotton agriculture in the economy before the American Civil War. It represents agricultural productivity rather than distribution and density of cotton cultivation by mapping two variables: productivity of cotton per enslaved laborer (blue, yellow, or red) and ratio of enslaved people to freemen (solid versus dashed horizontal lines). The map accompanied landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s published account of his travels through the South during the 1850s. Hired by the "New York Times" as a journalist to report his observations about the region’s economy, he argued that chattel slavery was inefficient for cotton production.
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3f463298j
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A map of the cotton kingdom and its dependencies in America
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map
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Source metadata
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3f463298j
contentType
map
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normalized
title
A map of the cotton kingdom and its dependencies in America
description
America Transformed: This statistical map addresses the importance of cotton agriculture in the economy before the American Civil War. It represents agricultural productivity rather than distribution and density of cotton cultivation by mapping two variables: productivity of cotton per enslaved laborer (blue, yellow, or red) and ratio of enslaved people to freemen (solid versus dashed horizontal lines). The map accompanied landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s published account of his travels through the South during the 1850s. Hired by the "New York Times" as a journalist to report his observations about the region’s economy, he argued that chattel slavery was inefficient for cotton production.
date
["[1861]"]
year
1861
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
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No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_007155
creators
McLellan, David, b. ca. 1825
Mason Brothers
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Cotton growing--United States--Maps
United States--Maps
subjectsGeographic
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
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pageCount
1
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import
pubPlace
New York
publisher
Mason Brothers
Source extras
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sf268508b
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41688024w
schema:latitude
38
schema:longitude
-98
extent
1 map : hand col. ; 28 x 42 cm.
notes
Shows dominant and subordinate cotton districts and subsidiary slave districts.
Relief shown by hachures.
"The data for this map are mainly derived from the United States Census of 1850."
From: Frederick Law Olmsted's The Cotton Kingdom. New York: Mason Brothers, 1861.
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3f463298j
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map
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