TABLE 1. Exports of Raw Cotton from Acre, 1700–1786
SOURCE: All data are taken from ACCM I, 26, 27, 28, and 29.
TABLE 2. Exports of Cotton Thread from Acre/Sidon, 1700–1789
SOURCE: All data are taken from ACCM I, 26, 27, 28, and 29.
FIGURE B.1. Cotton Exports from Acre, 1700 to 1789.
TABLE 3. Imports of Raw Cotton to Marseille from the Mediterranean, 1700–1789 (Ten-Year Averages in 1,000 Livres)
SOURCE: All data are taken from ACCM I, 26, 27, 28, and 29.
FIGURE B.2. Imports of Raw Cotton to Marseille, 1700 to 1789 (in 10-year averages).
TABLE 4. Global Cotton Imports to France, 1775 and 1789 (in 1,000 Livres)
SOURCE: Data taken from Paris, Histoire de la chambre de commerce de Marseille, 512 and George Roux & Victor Hugues, La Colonisation marseillaise en dehors de la Mediterranée au XVIIIe siècle, in Paul Masson, ed., Marseille et la colonisation française (Marseille, 1906), 185.
FIGURE B.3. Global Cotton Imports to France, 1775 and 1789.
TABLE 5. Quarterly Exports of Raw Cotton from Acre, 1810–1826
1820–1823 No trade records. Trade ceased to exist altogether, at least for the time of the siege of Acre, July 1822 to January 1823.7
1826. No ships arrive in Acre for trans-Mediterranean commerce.
SOURCE: All data are from the French consular correspondence, AN AE CC Acre vols. II, III, IV, and V, especially from the quarterly trade reports therein.
NOTES
1. The cotton harvest of 1811 was destroyed by locusts. Presumably there were no cotton exports in all of 1812.
2. Identical amounts in two or more quarters are derived from summary statistics in the French reports for the given period. They have consequently been broken down into averaged quarterly amounts. They do not indicate actual shipments in a specific quarter.
3. In 1815 Sulaymān Pasha forced Nablus farmers to sell their cotton to him for 100 fr/hl (AN AE CC Acre III, Nov. 28, 1815).
4. Cotton was abundant in 1818 but there were no buyers (AN AE CC Acre III, July 30, 1818).
5. In 1819 cotton sold in Acre for 30 percent more than that from America (AN AE Acre III, Sept. 1, 1819).
6. The amounts for 1819 include an unspecified quantity of sesame oil.
7. In 1821 the French consul Ruffin described the potential production of cotton as 13,000 quintaux, though only 3,000 were actually grown. The trade in Acre was dead (AN AE Acre III, Memoir 1821).
FIGURE B.4. Quarterly Exports of Raw Cotton from Acre, 1810 to 1826.
TABLE 6. Quarterly Exports of Wheat from Acre, 1810–1826*
1820–1823 No trade records. Trade ceased to exist altogether, at least for the time of the siege of Acre, July 1822–Jan. 1823.
1826 No ships arrive in Acre for trans-Mediterranean commerce.
SOURCE: All data are from the French consular correspondence, AN AE CC Acre vols. II, III, IV, and V, especially from the quarterly trade reports therein.
*Value of the franc: In 1815 the French consul calculated 1 piaster = 1 franc. In 1812 the rate was 1 piaster = 1.5 francs (AN AE CCC Seyde XXVI, Jan.3, 1812). The devaluation continues later.
NOTES
1. The figures for the last two quarters of 1810 and the first two quarters of 1811 also include shipments of 20,000 hl of wheat at 12 fr/hl to Istanbul.
2. The averaged figures break down as follows: 4,600 hl at 60 fr/hl totaling 276,000 to Malta 3,280 hl at 45 fr/hl totaling 147,600 to Malta and Greek Islands 5,000 hl at 12 fr/hl totaling 60,000 to Istanbul
3. The averaged figures break down as follows: 54,400 hl at 57 fr/hl totaling 3,100,800 to Malta 20,000 hl at 12 fr/hl totaling 240,000 to Istanbul
4. The averaged figures break down as follows: 32,916 hl at 36 fr/hl totaling 1,191,145 to various places 24,000 hl at 12 fr/hl totaling 288,000 to Istanbul
5. Identical figures for two or more quarters are derived from summary statistical statements in the French reports pertaining to that period. They have consequently been broken down to quarterly averages. They do not indicate actual shipments in a specific quarter.
6. The French consul estimated that the total amount of wheat sold during 1815 by Sulaymān Pasha was closer to 100,000 hl, shipping the difference via Tyre and Jaffa.
7. Each of the quarterly averaged sums breaks down as follows: 12,260 hl at between 18 and 30 fr/hl totaling 279,760 francs and 19,500 hl at 12 fr/hl totaling 234,000 francs to Istanbul
8. Including an unspecified amount for soap
FIGURE B.5. Quarterly Exports of Wheat from Acre, 1810 to 1826.
TABLE 7. Total Exports from Acre, 1810–1826*
1826 No ships for trans-Mediterranean commerce arrive in Acre.
SOURCE: All data are from the French consular correspondence, AN AE CC Acre vols. II, III, IV, and V, especially from the quarterly trade reports therein.
*In addition to grain and cotton, by far the two largest items, sundry amounts for such items as sesame oil, soap, and olive oil are included in the totals.
FIGURE B.6. Total Exports from Acre, 1810 to 1826.
TABLE 8. Individual Grain Prices in Acre, 1810–1820 (Francs/Hectoliter)
SOURCE: All data are from the French consular correspondence, AN AE CC Acre vols. II, III, IV, and V, especially from the quarterly trade reports therein.
NOTES
1. July 20, 1814. Abundant grain supplies. No export demand.
2. Jan. 25, 1816. Grain shortage—famine. Sold to Druze at 35.
3. June 8, 1916. Food riots in Acre.
4. April 12, 1817. Grain shortages; grain sold from granaries of Sulaymān.
5. March 27, 1818. No buyers.
6. July 30, 1818. Sulaymān wants 22; offer at 15 not accepted. No deal.
7. Nov. 18, 1818. Few takers.
FIGURE B.7. Grain Prices in Acre, 1810 to 1820.
TABLE 9. Acre and Dependencies, Sea Trade, 1825
SOURCE: All data are from the French consular correspondence, AN AE CC Acre vols. II, III, IV, and V, especially from the quarterly trade reports therein.
TABLE 10. Beirut Sea Trade, Jan.–Dec., 1827
| IMPORTS |
EXPORTS |
| 5,068,162 |
3,721,215 |
SOURCE: All data are from the French consular correspondence, AN AE CC Acre vols. II, III, IV, and V, especially from the quarterly trade reports therein.
TABLE 11. Damascus Imports, July–Dec. 1824
SOURCE: All data are from the French consular correspondence, AN AE CC Acre vols. II, III, IV, and V, especially from the quarterly trade reports therein.
