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See also:NEGRO (from See also:Lat. eager, See also:black)
, in See also:anthropology, the designa- among the See also:Bantu, who are also as a See also:rule less tall, less prognathous, tion of the distinctly dark-skinned, as opposed to the See also:fair, yellow,
and See also:
In Africa three races have intermingled to a certain extent with the negro; the Libyans (See also:Berbers: q.v.) in the Western See also:Sudan.; and the Hamitic races (q.v.) and See also:Arabs (q.v.) in the See also:east
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The identity of the See also:people who have amalgamated with the negro to See also:form the Bantu-speaking peoples in the southern portion of the See also:continent is not certain, but as the latter appear to approach the Hamites in those characteristics in which they differ from the true negroes, it seems probable that they are infused with a proportion of Hamitic See also:blood
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The true negroes show See also:great similarity of See also:physical characteristics; besides those already mentioned they are distinguished by length of See also:arm, especially of fore arm, length of See also:leg, smallness of See also:calf and See also:projection of See also:heel; characteristics which frequently fail to appear to the same degree
' This point has been fully determined by P
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Brown (See also:Classification of Mankind by the Hair, &c.), who shows conclusively that, unlike true hair and like true See also:wool, the negro hair is flat, issues from the epidermis at a right See also:angle, is spirally See also:twisted or crisped, has no central duct, the colouring See also:matter being disseminated through the cortex and intermediate See also:fibres, while the cortex itself is covered with numerous rough, pointed filaments adhering loosely to the See also:shaft; lastly, the negro See also:pile will See also:felt, like wool, whereas true hair cannot be felted
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and it is not fair to See also:judge of his See also:mental capacity by tests taken directly from the environment of the See also: In speaking of the form or forms of culture found among negro and negroid tribes, the dependence of the native upon his environment must be kept in mind, particularly in Africa, where interchange of customs is continually taking See also:place among neighbours . Thus the See also:forest regions are distinguished by a particular form of culture which differs from that prevailing in the more open See also:country (see AFRICA: Ethnology) . But it may be said generally that the negro is first and foremost an agriculturist . The See also:negritos are on a See also:lower cultural See also:plane; they are nomadic hunters who do no cultivation whatever . Next in importance to See also:agriculture come See also:hunting and fishing and, locally, See also:cattle-keeping . The last is not strictly typical of negro culture at all; nearly all the tribes by whom it is practised are of mixed origin, and their devotion to cattle seems to vary inversely with the purity of race . The most striking exception to this statement is the See also:Dinka of the upper See also:Nile, the whole of whose existence centres See also:round the cattle See also:pen . Of the other tribes where See also:pastoral habits obtain to a greater or less extent, the See also:Masai have a large percentage of Hamitic blood, the eastern and southern Bantu-speaking negroids are also of mixed descent, &c . The social conditions are usually See also:primitive, especially among the negroes proper, being based on the See also:village community ruled by a chief . Where the country is open, or where the forest is not so thick as to See also:present any great obstacle to communication, it has often happened that a chief has extended his rule over several villages and has ultimately built up a See also:kingdom administered by sub-chiefs of various grades, and has .even established a See also:court with a See also:regular See also:hierarchy of officials . See also:Benin and See also:Dahomey are instances of this . But the region where this " See also:empire-See also:building " has reached its greatest proportions lies to the south of the forest See also:belt in the territory of the Bantu negroids, where arose the states of Lunda, See also:Cazembe, &c . The domestic See also:life of the negro is based upon polygyny, and See also:marriage is almost always by See also:purchase . So vital is polygyny to the native social See also:system that the attempts made by missionaries to abolish See also:plurality of wives would, if successful (a contingency unthinkable under present conditions), result in the most serious social disorder . Not only would an enormous section of the population be deprived of all means of support, but the native wife would be infinitely harder worked; agriculture, the task of the See also:women, would be at a standstill; and See also:infanticide would probably assume dangerous proportions . Descent in the negro See also:world is on the whole more often reckoned through the See also:female, though many tribes with a patriarchal system are found . Traces of See also:totemism are found sporadically, but are rare.345 Of the highest importance socially are the See also:secret See also:societies, which are found in their highest development among the negroes of the west coast, and in a far less significant form among some of the Bantu negroids of the western forest See also:district . In their highest form these societies transcend the tribal divisions, and the tie which binds the individual to the society takes See also:precedence of all others . But the secret society cannot be called a definitely negro institution, since it is found in the west only . As an agriculturist the negro is principally a vegetarian, but this form of See also:diet is not the result of direct choice; See also:meat is everywhere regarded as a great delicacy, and no opportunity of obtaining it is ever neglected, with one exception—that the cattle-keeping tribes rarely slaughter for See also:food, because cattle are a form of currency . See also:Fish is also an important See also:article of diet in the neighbourhood of large See also:rivers, especially the Nile and See also:Congo . It is worthy of See also:note that the two cultivated See also:plants which form the mainstay of native life, manioc in the west and centre and mealies in the south and east, are neither of See also:African origin . See also:Cannibalism is found in its simplest form in Africa . In that continent the See also:majority of cannibal tribes eat human flesh because they like it, and not from any magical See also:motive or from lack of other See also:animal food .
In fact it is noticeable that the tribes most addicted to this practice inhabit just those districts where See also:game is most plentiful
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Among the true negroes it is confined mainly to the Welle and See also:Ubangi districts, though found sporadically (and due to magical motives) on the west coast, and among the Bantu negroids in the south-western See also:part of Belgian Congo and- the See also:Gabun
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With regard to crafts the most important and typical is that of See also:iron smelting and working
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No negro tribe has been found of which the culture is typical of the See also: The See also:production of See also:fire by means of See also:friction was universal, the method known as " twirling " being in See also:vogue, i.e. the rapid rotation between the palms of a piece of hard See also:wood upon a piece of soft wood . Trading is practised either by direct See also:barter or through the See also:medium of See also:rude forms of currency which vary according to locality . Value is reckoned among the tribes with pastoral tendencies in cattle and goats; among the eastern negroes by See also:hoe-and See also:spear-See also:blades and See also:salt blocks; in the west by cowries, See also:brass rods, and bronze armlets (manilas); in Belgian Congo variously by olivella shells, brass rods, salt, goats and fowls, See also:copper ingots and iron spear-blades, &c . As regards See also:religion, the question of environment is again important; in the western forests where communities are small the negro is a fetishist, though his See also:fetishism is often combined more or less with nature See also:worship . Where communication is easier the nature worship becomes more systematic, and definite supernatural agencies are recognized, presiding over definite See also:spheres of human life.' Where feudal kingdoms have been formed, ancestor-worship begins to appear and often assumes See also:paramount ' The three volumes by See also:Colonel See also:Ellis mentioned in the bibliography form an excellent study of the development of negro religion . importance . In fact this form of religion is typical of all the eastern and southern portion of the continent (see AFRICA: Ethnology) . With the negro, as with most primitive peoples, it is the See also:malignant See also:powers which receive See also:attention from man, with a view to propitiation or See also:coercion . Beneficent agencies require no attention, since, from their very nature, they must continue to do good . The negro attitude towards the super-natural is based frankly on fear; gratitude plays no part in it . A characteristic feature of the western culture See also:area, among both negro and Bantu negroid tribes, is the belief that any form of See also:death except by violence must be due to evil magic exercised by, or through the agency of, some human individual; to discover the guilty party the See also:poison See also:ordeal is freely used . A similar form of ordeal is found in See also:British Central Africa to discover magicians, and the wholesale " smelling-out " of " witches," often practised for See also:political reasons, is a well-known feature of the culture of the Zulu-Xosa tribes . Everywhere magic, both sympathetic and imitative, is practised, both by the See also:ordinary individual and by professional magicians, and most medical treatment is based on this, although the magician is usually a herbalist of some skill . Where the rainfall is uncertain, the production of See also:rain by magical means is one of the chief duties of the magician, a See also:duty which becomes paramount in the eastern plains among negroes and Bantu negroids alike . But the negroes and negroids have been considerably influenced by exotic religions, chiefly by Mahommedanism along the whole extent of country bordering the Sahara and in the east . See also:Christianity has made less progress, and the See also:reason is not far to seek . See also:Islam is See also:simple, categorical and easily comprehended; it tends far less to upset the native social system, especially in the matter of polygyny, and at the same See also:time discourages See also:indulgence in strong drink . Moreover the number of native missionaries is considerable . Christianity has none of these advantages, but possesses two great drawbacks as far as the negro is concerned . It is not sufficiently categorical, but leaves too much to the individual, and it discountenances polygyny . The fact that it is divided into sects, more or less competitive among them-selves, is another disadvantage which can hardly be overrated . This See also:division has not, it is true, as yet had much See also:influence upon the evangelization of Africa, since the various See also:missions have mostly restricted themselves each to a particular See also:sphere; still, it is a defect in Christianity, as compared with Islam, which will probably make itself felt in Africa as it has in See also:China . As regards See also:language, the Bantu negroids all speak dialects of one See also:tongue (see BANTU See also:LANGUAGES) . Among the negroes the most extraordinary linguistic confusion prevails, See also:half a dozen neighbouring villages in a small area often speaking each a See also:separate language . All are of the agglutinating See also:order . No absolutely indigenous form of script exists; though the See also:Hausa tongue has been reduced to See also:writing without See also:European assistance.' AurHoiuTIES.— . See also:Deniker, Races of Man (See also:London, 1900) ; A . H . See also:Keane, Ethnology (London, 1896); Man Past and Present (London, 1900) ; A . B . Ellis, The Tshi-speaking Peoples (1887) ; The See also:Ewe-speaking Peoples (189o); The Yoruba-speaking Peoples (1894); B . Ankermann, " Kulturkreise in Afrika," Zeit. f . Eth . (1905), p . 54 . See also AFRICA, § 3, Ethnology . (T . A . J.) Negroes in the See also:United States . After the See also:migration of the European fair-skinned races in large See also:numbers to other parts of the See also:earth occupied by people of darker colour, the See also:adjustment of relations between the diverse races See also:developed a whole See also:series of problems almost unknown to the See also:ancient world or to the life of See also:modern See also:Europe . The wider the diversity of physique and especially of skin colour, the greater the danger of friction . The more serious the effort to secure See also:industrial and social co-operation under representative institutions, the graver have become the difficulties . They have been and are perhaps more acute in the United States than elsewhere, ' The Vai See also:alphabet, " invented " by a native, Doalu Bukere, in the first half of the 19th century, owed its inspiration to European influence,'and of the characters ' many . . . are clumsy adaptations of See also:Roman letters or of conventional signs used by Europeans " (See also:Sir H . H . See also:Johnston, See also:Liberia, p . 1107 See also:foil., London, 1906).because there the lightest and the darkest races have commingled, because of the theory on which the See also:government of the country nominally rests, that each See also:freeman should be given an equal See also:chance to improve his industrial position and an equal See also:voice in deciding political questions, and because of the almost irreconcilable differences in the public See also:opinion of the two great sections to only one of which do the problems come home as everyday matters . They were not solved by the See also:Civil See also:War and emancipation, but their nature was radically altered . Neither the earlier system of See also:slavery nor the governmental theory during the See also:radical reconstruction period that race differences should be ignored has proved workable, and the trend is now towards some modus vivendi between these extremes . The only See also:definition of negro having any statutory basis in the United States is that given in the legislation of many Southern states prohibiting intermarriage between a white See also:person and " a person who has one-eighth or more of African blood." See also:Census enumerators in their See also:counts of the See also:American people since 1790 have distinguished the two See also:main races of whites and negroes, but in so doing they have never been given a definition or criterion of race . Consequently they followed the See also:judgment of the community enumerated, which usually classes as negro all persons known or believed to have in their See also:veins any ad-mixture of negro blood . It is probable that this line, the so-called " colour line," which is emphasized in regions where negroes are numerous by many legal, economic and social discriminations between the races, is See also:drawn with substantial accuracy . Far different has been the result of governmental efforts to draw another line within the group of negroes as thus defined, that between the negroes of pure African blood and those of mixed negro and white blood . This distinction has no legal significance, for negroes of pure blood and negroes of mixed blood are subject to the same provisions of See also:law, and at least for the whites it has little social or economic significance . An See also:attempt to draw it was made at each census betweeen 1850 and 1890 inclusive, and the results, so far as they were published, indicate that between one-See also:sixth and one-ninth of the negroes in the United States have some admixture of white blood . The figures were reached through thousands of census enumerators, nearly all of whom were white . Of See also:recent years an effort has been made on the part of negro investigators to get an See also:answer to the same question by the careful study of communities selected as typical . The classification of about 39,000 coloured people, most of them in different parts of See also:Georgia, with a study of the other available data and inferences from a somewhat wide observation, led Dr See also:Dubois to the conclusion that " at least one-third of the negroes of the United States have recognizable traces of white blood." Perhaps we may believe with some confidence that the in-formation from white See also:sources understates, and that from negro sources overstates, the proportion, and that the true proportion of mulattoes in the United States is between one-sixth and one-third of all negroes . To infer that the true proportion in 185o, 186o, 1870 and 189o, the See also:dates to which the census figures relate, was much less than the true proportion in 1895 to 1900, to which the unofficial figures relate, is contrary to the See also:general trend of the evidence . As the law and the social opinion of the Southern whites make little or nothing of this distinction between negroes of pure blood and mulattoes, it is often regarded as less important than it really is . The recognized leaders of the race are almost invariably persons of mixed blood, and the qualities which have made them leaders are derived certainly in part and perhaps mainly from their white ancestry . Wherever large numbers of full-blooded negroes and of persons of mixed central or north European and negro blood have lived in the same community for some generations, there is a strong and growing tendency to establish a social line between them . The difficulty of ascertaining the number of mulattoes in the United States and the tendency of the testimony to be modified by the opinion or See also:desire of the race from which it comes are typical . There is hardly any important aspect of the subject upon which the testimony of seemingly competent and impartial witnesses is not materially affected by the influence of the race the highest tenth is far better and far better off than formerly, and the lowest tenth is worse and perhaps also worse off than in slavery . Under such circumstances there are no adequate See also:objective tests of progress . The pessimist points to the alleged increase of idleness and See also:crime, the meliorist to a demonstrated decrease of illiteracy and to considerable accumulations of See also:property . The large majority of competent students believe that the American negroes have progressed, materially and morally, since emancipation, that the central or See also:average point is higher than in 1865, although such persons differ widely among themselves regarding the amount of that progress . It would be generally but not universally held, also, that the negroes in the United States progressed under slavery, that they were far better qualified for See also:incorporation as a vital and' contributing See also:element of the country's See also:civilization at the time of their emancipation than they were on arrival or than an equal number of their African kindred would have been . But probably the See also:rate of progress has been more rapid under freedom than it was under slavery . The evidence regarding the progress of the American negro may be grouped under the following heads: numbers, See also:birth-rate, See also:health, See also:wealth, See also:education, occupations, morals, to which the witnesses belong . Under these circumstances it seems necessary to assume that the testimony of the See also:official documents of the federal government is correct, unless clear evidence, See also:internal or See also:external, refutes it . The following statements of fact rest mainly on those sources . The number of negroes living in the (See also:continental) United States in 1908 was about nine and three-See also:quarter millions, and if those in See also:Porto Rico and See also:Cuba be included it reached ten and two-thirds millions . This number is greater than the See also:total population of the United States was in 182o, and nearly as great as the population of See also:Norway, See also:Sweden and See also:Denmark . During the colonial period, and down to the changes initiated by the invention of the cotton See also:gin, negroes were distributed with some evenness along the See also:Atlantic coast . Between the date of that invention and the Civil War, and largely as a result of the changes the cotton gin set in See also:motion, the tendency was to-wards a concentration of the negroes in the great cotton-growing area of the country . In 1700, for example, one-ninth of the population of the See also:colony of New See also:York was negro; in 1900 only one-seventieth of the population of the empire See also:state belonged to that race . The division line between the See also:Northern and Southern states adopted by the Census See also:Office in 188o, and employed since that date in its publications, is See also:Mason and See also:Dixon's line, or the southern boundary of See also:Pennsylvania, the See also:Ohio See also:river from Pennsylvania to its mouth and the southern boundary of See also:Missouri and See also:Kansas . In the states north of that line, the Northern states, in all of which but Missouri negro slavery either never existed or else was abolished before the Civil War, the white population increased tenfold and the negro population only fourfold between 1790 and 186o . In the states south of that line, on the contrary, the Southern states, the negro population in the same period increased sixfold and the white population not so fast . It was a widespread opinion shortly after the Civil War that the emancipated slaves would speedily disperse through the country, and that this process would greatly simplify the problems arising from the contact of the two races . This expectation has not been entirely falsified by the result . Between 186o and 1900 the negroes in the Northern states increased somewhat more rapidly than the northern whites, and those in the Southern states much less rapidly than the Southern whites . As a result, one-tenth of the American negroes lived in 1908 in the Northern states, a larger proportion than at any time during the 19th century .
But this process of See also:dispersion is so slow as not materially to affect the prospects for the immediate future, and it is still almost as true as at any earlier date that the region in which cotton is a See also:staple See also:crop coincides in the main with the region in which negroes are more than one-half of the total population
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This appears if a comparison is made between the northern boundary of the so-called Austroriparian zone of plant and animal life in the United States, that is " the zone of the cotton plant, See also:sugar See also:cane, See also:rice, pecan and peanut," and the northern boundary of the " black belt " or region in which the negroes are a majority of the population
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The coincidence of the two is very close, and was much closer in See also:rood than in 186o
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It appears yet more clearly by a comparison between a See also:map showing the counties in which at least 5% of the area was planted to cotton in 1899 and another map showing the " black belt " counties in 1900
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The black belt stretches north through eastern See also:Virginia beyond the cotton belt, and the cotton belt stretches south-west through eastern central See also:Texas beyond the black belt, but between these two extremes there is a close agreement in the boundaries of the two areas
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The question " Have the American negroes progressed, materially and morally, since emancipation?" is generally answered in the affirmative
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But even on this question entire unanimity is lacking
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A considerable See also:body of men could still be found in 1910, mainly among Southern whites, who held that the See also:condition of the race was worse than it was in the days of slavery
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Probably all competent students would admit, however, that the race has differentiated since 1865, that the distance separating the highest tenth from the lowest tenth has become wider, thatcitizenship
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Numbers.—The dictum of See also:Adam See also: They are now much the most thriving offshoot of the race and the most civilized and progressive group of negroes in the world . Under a slavery system not permitting the importation of new supplies a high rate of increase by excess of births over deaths is an See also:advantage to the See also:master class . During the slavery period and until about 188o the increase of southern whites and of southern negroes proceeded at about the same rate . But during the last See also:score of years in the century the increase of negroes was much less rapid, the rate being only about three-fifths of that prevailing among southern whites . Birth-rate.—As the increase of negro population is slackening, as the See also:immigration and See also:emigration of negroes are insignificant in amount, and as the death-rate is about stationary, it is reasonable to infer that the birth-rate is dwindling . This cannot be stated with certainty, for there are no registrafion records giving the number of births for any large and representative group of American negroes . A good See also:index to the birth-rate, however, may be derived from the proportion of See also:children under 5 years of age to women 15 to 49 years of age . In the returns negroes are not distinguished from See also:Indians and Mongolians . To minimize this slight source of See also:error and at the same time to secure a more representative and homogeneous population group, the following figures are confined to the Southern or former slave states: Date . Children under 5 Years of Age to moo Women 15 to 49 Years of Age in the Southern States . Negroes . Whites . 185o 705 695 186o 688 682 187o 661 6ox 188o 737 656 1890 6o1 580 1900 577 581 These figures indicate that the proportion of children to child-bearing women, and hence probably the birth-rate, changed in the same direction during each See also:decade between 185o and 189o . Between 185o and 187o the proportion of negro children decreased about 6% and that of white children about 14%; between 187o and 1880 the proportion of negro children increased about 12 % and that of white children about 9%; between 188o and 1890 the proportion of negro children decreased about 18 % and that of white children about 12 %; between 1890 and 1900 the proportion of negro children decreased about 4% and that of white children remained practically the same . Before the war the proportion of living children to potential mothers was about the same for the two races at the South, for the first three censuses after the war the proportion of negro children was much greater than of white children, but by 1900 that proportion was less, and the See also:movement during the decade suggests that the proportions may have begun to See also:change in opposite directions . When one considers both the great number of deaths caused by See also:consumption and See also:pneumonia, 28.4% of the deaths from all causes in 1900 and the very high death-rate of negroes from these diseases, it is no exaggeration to say that the main cause that the death-rate of that race is See also:double that of the white race lies in the ravages of these two scourges of mankind . The difference between the two races in this respect has apparently increased since 189o, for at that date the death-rate of negroes in the See also:registration area from consumption was only 2.37 times that of the whites, and its death-rate from pneumonia only 1.53 times that of the whites . Here as else-where there has been an improvement as measured by an See also:absolute See also:standard, and at the same time an increased divergence from the conditions prevailing among the more numerous race . Wealth.—An estimate of the property now held by American negroes made in 1904 by a See also:committee of the American Economic Association indicated about $300,000,000, with a probable error of perhaps $50,000,000 . This figure indicates a per capita wealth of about $34 . We have no means for judging what the possessions of the race were at the time of its emancipation, but in 1860 there were nearly half a million See also:free negroes in the country, many of them holding property and some of them wealthy . The per capita wealth of the white population of the United States in 1900 was about $1320 and that of southern whites about $885, indicating that the property of the average negro person or See also:family was about one twenty-fifth that of the average southern white person or family . Education.—It is often supposed that the American negroes in 1865 were without any accumulated property and without any start in education . Neither See also:assumption is warranted .
On the contrary, about two-fifths of the adult free negroes in the country were reported in 1850 and 186o as able to read and write, and there is some reason to believe that not far from one-twelfth of the adult slaves also had learned to write
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In 1900 more than half of the negroes at least ten years of age could write, and the proportion was rising at a rate which, if continued, would almost eliminate illiteracy by the See also:middle of the present century
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The problem of providing adequate educational facilities for negro children is made more difficult by the See also:maintenance in all the former slave states of two'sets of See also:schools, one for each race
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At the present time those states with one-third of their population negro assign about one-fifth of their public school funds to the support of negro schools
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About $155,000,000 or one-sixth of the entire amount spent by southern communities for public schools between 1870 and 1906, has gone to support schools for the negroes
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The same cause has been aided by many private gifts from individuals and organizations interested in negro education, among which the See also:Peabody Education Fund of about $2,000,000, now in course of See also:dissolution, and the See also:
In consequence negroes are being more and more excluded from the See also: Date . Cities having at least Smaller Cities and Country Districts . 25,000 Inhabitants . Negroes . Whites . Negroes . Whites . 1890 319 391 688 665 1900 271 374 668 671 The noteworthy inference from these figures is that the proportion of negro children in southern cities was very See also:low and decreasing . In 1890 it was about five-sixths, and in 1900 less than three-fourths of the proportion of children among whites in these cities . The differences in northern cities are equally marked . City life appears to exercise a powerful and increasing influence in reducing the birth-rate among the negroes . Health.—The prosperity and progress of a population group are indicated, not merely by growth in numbers but, also by the longevity of its members . This vitality is roughly measured by the death-rate . Other things being equal, a low and sinking death-rate is evidence of a high and increasing average duration of life . In the United States vital statistics are in See also:charge of the several states and cities, and are often defective or entirely lacking . In 1890 and woo the Federal,government compiled such as were of importance, and in 1864 an official compilation was made of death-rates of negroes before the war . The results are See also:worth See also:consideration . Date . Deaths . Ne See also:mate . White Death-rate Death at same Time and Places . Mainly between 1818–1863 106,217 35.0 27.o 1890 28,579 29.9 19.1 1900 37,029 29.6 17'3 These figures indicate that the death-rate of each race decreased during a half century, but that the decrease among negroes was much less rapid than among whites . The negro death-rate at the earliest period exceeded that of the whites by 8•o per thousand, or three-tenths of the smaller rate . At the latest period the difference was 12.3 per thousand, or seven-tenths of the smaller rate . But these figures speak for negroes living mainly in cities where the proportion of children and elderly persons is small and that of negroes at the healthy ages is large . After making a proper See also:allowance for these differences in See also:sex and age See also:composition, it is found that the true death-rate of negroes in the registration area is about twice as high as that of a white population of like sex and age structure . Whether the difference between negro and white residents of the country districts in the south is equally great, we have no means for judging . The leading causes of death among negroes in the registration area arranged in the order of importance are stated below . The ratio to the corresponding death-rate among whites is added, but the differences are affected partly by the greater proportion of negroes in the southern cities and the different incidence of diseases in the two regions, and partly by probable differences in the accuracy of diagnosis of disease in the two sections and by physicians attending the two races . 1 Causes of Death . Negro Death-rate Ratio to White per low . Death-rate=See also:loo . Consumption 4.85 280 Pneumonia . . . 3'55 192 Diseases of the See also:nervous 3.08 144 system . . See also:Heart disease and See also:dropsy 2.21 161 Diarrheal diseases .
2.14 165
Diseases of the urinary 1.57 157
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Typhoid See also:fever
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•68 204
Old age •67 125
Malarial fever
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.63 969
See also:Cancer and See also:tumour •48 72
See also:Diphtheria and See also:croup
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.32 69
See also:Influenza .32 136
Whooping cough
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. .29 239
Diseases of the See also:liver •2I 92
See also:Measles •15 115
See also:Scarlet fever .03 25
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legislation or provisions of the state constitutions
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If such enactments are nominally directed not against any race but against certain characteristics which may appear mainly in the race, such as illiteracy, inability or unwillingness to pay an See also:annual See also:poll tax or to See also:register each See also:year, they have been and are likely to be held within the constitutional authority of the state
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On the part of the overwhelming majority of negroes this practical disfranchisement has aroused no protest, while it has tended to improve the government and to open the way for the See also:gradual development and expression in word and See also:vote of differences within the ranks of white voters regarding questions of public policy
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Along with this decrease of pressure from without the southern states and the development of economic competition between the races within them, there has gone an increased demand on the part of the whites for a See also:complete social separation between the races in school, in See also: But that life was changing with marvellous rapidity, becoming less simple, less agricultural and patriarchal, more manufacturing and commercial, more strenuous and complex . It was too early to say whether the negroes would be given an equal or a fair opportunity to show that they could be as serviceable or more serviceable in such a civilization as they had been in that which was passing away, and whether the race would show itself able to accept and improve such chances as were afforded, and to remain in the future under these changing circumstances, as they had been in the past, a vital and essential part of the life of the nation . Among southern white men who have written wisely on the subject may be mentioned: Dr J . L . M . See also:Curry, for many years general See also:agent of the' Peabody and Slater funds; H . A . See also:Herbert, Why the Solid South? or Reconstruction and its Results (See also:Baltimore, 189o); T . N . See also:Page, The Negro—the Southerner's Problem (New York, 1904) ; E . G . See also:Murphy, Problems of the Present South (New York, 1904); E . R . See also:Corson, Vital See also:Equation of the Colored Race; and A . H . Stone, Studies in the American Race Problem (New York, 1908) . F . L . Hoffman's Race, Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro (New York, 1896) contains the most important collection of statistical data in any private publication and interpretations thoroughly congenial to most southern whites . Among the southern negroes doubtless the most important writers are the two representatives of somewhat antagonistic views, Booker T . See also:Washington, Up from Slavery (New York, 1901), Future of the American Negro (See also:Boston, 1899), See also:Tuskegee and its People (New York, 1905), &c., and W . E . B . Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk (See also:Chicago, 1903), The See also:Philadelphia Negro (Boston, 1899), Health and Physique of the Negro American (1907), &c . With these should be mentioned See also:Atlanta University annual publications, the Proceedings of the See also:Hampton Negro See also:Conference and the See also:file of the Southern Workman . No northern man since the war has written on the subject with the thoughtfulness and See also:weight of See also:Frederick Law See also:Olmsted, See also:Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (New York, 1856) . See also Sir H . H . Johnston, The Negro in the New World (1910) . (W . F . |
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