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 ==TABLE OF CONTENTS. == by E. Digby Baltzell. . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO.
I. The Scope of This Study. . . . . . . . . . . 1–4

1. General aim. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2. The methods of inquiry. . . . . . . 1

3. The credibility of the results. . . . . 2 II. The Problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–9

4. The Negro problems of Philadelphia. 5

5. The plan of presentment ....... 8

III. The Negro in Philadelphia, 1638-1820. . . . 10–24

6. General survey. . . . . . . . . . . . 10 7. The transplanting of the Negro, 1638–1760. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

8. Emancipation, 1760–1780. . . . . . . 15

9. The rise of the freedmen, 1780–1820. . 17

IV. The Negro in Philadelphia, 1820–1896. . . . 25–45

10. Fugitives and foreigners, 1820–1840. . 25

11. The guild of the caterers, 1840–1870. . 32

12. The influx of the freedmen, 1870–1896 39

V. The Size, Age and Sex of the Negro Population. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46–65

13. The city for a century. . . . . . . . 46

14. The Seventh Ward, 1896. . . . . . . 58

VI. Conjugal Condition. . . . . . . . . . . . 66–72

15. The Seventh Ward. . . . . . . . . . 66

16. The city. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70