The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914 · THE MAP AROUND
Map of the industrial world around 1806
Haiti free; the cotton gin’s first harvests
The industrial world around 1806: Haiti free; the cotton gin’s first harvests. Since 1750, 6 territories changed status on this map: including The United States (British colonies to 1776), Saint-Domingue, then Haiti (1804), Great Britain and Ulster and 3 more.
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What changes on the map
| The United States (British colonies to 1776) | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Saint-Domingue, then Haiti (1804) | Colony or dependency → Agrarian economy |
| Great Britain and Ulster | — → Industrialising |
| Bengal (mod. Bangladesh) | — → Colony or dependency |
| Australia | — → Colony or dependency |
| South Africa | — → Colony or dependency |
On the ground
- the first cotton plantations of the upland South after the gin of 1793
- the sugar islands of the Caribbean after Haiti’s revolution, still worked by enslaved people
- the Lancashire cotton district
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