I'm a stock trader, it's literally my job to do good research, and while this is interesting it doesn't actually provided much information. Just vague descriptors like "really big cotton company. This one was YUGE". You would need to familiarize yourself with the landscape and painstakingly verify not only every detail here but also everything that ISN'T in the graph (largest land owners, cultivators, family businesses, etc). Honestly it would warrant its own website with sources and maps because this would be a pain in the asshole to do yourself. Here's an example, it lists Adolph Meyer on there and just says "acquired 30,000 acres of cotton fields". Okay? When you look into it, this wasn't actually until the early 1900s that he went to Eudora and it seemed like the main capacity was trade routes. https://www.isjl.org/arkansas-eudora-encyclopedia.html Aside from the fact we are looking at the wrong years (who gives a fuck about early 1900s cotton companies?) a lot of these companies are brokers and traders. Meaning, they never actually had anything to do with the production of the goods (just distribution). Why are they on this list at all? I guess they're technically "dealers" but we don't particularly give a fuck if they were just moving the shit around, we want to know who the slave owners were. Right? I haven't done thorough research on this but just picking through a few of these I'm not seeing anything super compelling. It's interesting but it doesn't make the point that people want it to make. At all.