_Exports_ from-- | India, lbs. 30,000,000 | West Indies, 17,000,000 | Brazil, 24,000,000 | Elsewhere, 7,000,000 | | 1806. Cotton crop of the U. S., 80,000,000 lbs. | | | | | | 1812. War declared between the United States and Great Britain. | | | ================================================================== Dates of Inventions promoting the growth and manufacture of Cotton, and of movements to elevate the African race. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Previous to the invention of the machinery named below, all carding, spinning, and weaving of wool and cotton had been done by the use of the hand-cards, one-spindle wheels, and common hand-looms. The work, for a long period, was performed in families; but the improved machinery propelled by steam power, has so reduced the cost of cotton manufactures, that all household manufacturing has long since been abandoned, and the monopoly yielded to capitalists, who now fill the world with their cheap fabrics.