The Philadelphia negro : a social study

Title:

Author:

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

ISBN:

9780199383719

Personal Author:

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Series:

Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois

Works. Selections. 2007.

General Note:

Originally published: Philadelphia : The University, 1899, in series: Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law. With new introd.

Contents:

The scope of this study -- The problem -- The Negro in Philadelphia, 1638-1820 -- The Negro in Philadelphia, 1820-1896 -- The size, age and sex of the Negro population -- Conjugal condition -- Sources of the Negro population -- Education and illiteracy -- The occupations of Negroes -- The health of Negroes -- The Negro family -- The organized life of Negroes -- The Negro criminal -- Pauperism and alcoholism -- The environment of the Negro -- The contact of the races -- Negro suffrage -- A final word.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

Geographic Term:

Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.

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