Education of the Negroes since 1860 . ITE. NEGUO. 1790 65 35 ISOO 65 35 1810 63 37 1820 63 -7 1830 63 37 1840 63 37 1850 64 36 1860 66 34 1870 68 32 1880 67 33 1890 69 31 It appears from the above table that a century ago theI)opulation of the South was made up of whites and negroesin the proportions of 65 and 85 per cent., and that in 1890the proportions were 69 and 31 per cent. The ])roportionof negroes increased from 1790 to 1810, when it reached 37per cent., leaving only 63 per cent, as the j)roportion of thewhites, and remained practically stationary for three 1840 the propo
Education of the Negroes since 1860 . ITE. NEGUO. 1790 65 35 ISOO 65 35 1810 63 37 1820 63 -7 1830 63 37 1840 63 37 1850 64 36 1860 66 34 1870 68 32 1880 67 33 1890 69 31 It appears from the above table that a century ago theI)opulation of the South was made up of whites and negroesin the proportions of 65 and 85 per cent., and that in 1890the proportions were 69 and 31 per cent. The ])roportionof negroes increased from 1790 to 1810, when it reached 37per cent., leaving only 63 per cent, as the j)roportion of thewhites, and remained practically stationary for three 1840 the proportion of negroes has diminished. Rates of Increase. The following table, showing the rates of increase of thetwo races for each ten-year period during the past century,leads to a similar conclusion, that is, that for a half-centurythe negroes increased more rapidly than the whites, whileduring the last half-ccutury they have increased lessnipidly. PROPORTION OF NEGROES TQ TOTAL POPULATION IN 1890 M Per cent. 0 10 20 30 PLATE V. 50 60. Proportion which negroes of former slave states bore topopulation of those states. 10 Per SO 1790180018101820183018J/)18501860187018801890 40 THE NEGROES IN CITIES. 15 BATES OF INCREASE OP WHITE AND NEGRO ELEMENTS OF FORMER SLAVE STATES. WHITE. NEGRO. 1790 to 1800 34 33 1800 to 1810 30 39 1810 to 1820 28 30 1820 to 1830 29 32 1830 to 1840 27 24 1840 to 1850 34 27 1850 to 1860 30 22 1860 to 1870 17 8 1870 to 1880 33 34 1880 to 1890 24 13 The Negroes in Cities. It is well known that as the population of a state orcountry increases, such increase goes in constantly risingproportion into its cities; in other words, that urban popu-lation increases at a more rapid rate than the total popula-tion, especially after the population has passed a certainaverage density. This country presents an excellent exampleof this tendency of population towards the cities. At thetime of the first census only 3^ per cent, of the total popu-lation was in cities of
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