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The Gift of Black Folk
| United States | South | |||
| 1820 | . . . . . . . . . | 18.4 | . . . . . . . . . | 37.2 |
| 1810 | . . . . . . . . . | 19.0 | . . . . . . . . . | 36.7 |
| 1800 | . . . . . . . . . | 18.9 | . . . . . . . . . | 35.0 |
| 1790 | . . . . . . . . . | 19.3 | . . . . . . . . . | 35.2 |
If we consider the number of Negroes for each 1,000 whites, we have:
| 1920 | . . . . . . . . . | 110 | . . . . . . . . . | 369 |
| 1910 | . . . . . . . . . | 120 | . . . . . . . . . | 426 |
| 1900 | . . . . . . . . . | 132 | . . . . . . . . . | 480 |
| 1890 | . . . . . . . . . | 136 | . . . . . . . . . | 512 |
| 1880 | . . . . . . . . . | 152 | . . . . . . . . . | 564 |
| 1870 | . . . . . . . . . | 145 | . . . . . . . . . | 562 |
| 1860 | . . . . . . . . . | 165 | . . . . . . . . . | 582 |
| 1850 | . . . . . . . . . | 186 | . . . . . . . . . | 595 |
| 1840 | . . . . . . . . . | 203 | . . . . . . . . . | 613 |
| 1830 | . . . . . . . . . | 221 | . . . . . . . . . | 610 |
| 1820 | . . . . . . . . . | 225 | . . . . . . . . . | 592 |
| 1810 | . . . . . . . . . | 235 | . . . . . . . . . | 579 |
| 1800 | . . . . . . . . . | 233 | . . . . . . . . . | 539 |
| 1790 | . . . . . . . . . | 239 | . . . . . . . . . | 543 |
The proportion of Negroes in the North was small, falling from 3.4% in 1790 to 1.8% in 1910. Nevertheless even here the indirect in-
