TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Introduction by E. Digby Baltzell . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO.
Chapter 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
Chapter II. The Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–9
4. The Negro problems of Philadelphia . 5
5. The plan of presentment ....... 8
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter VI. Conjugal Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . 66–72
15. The Seventh Ward . . . . . . . . . . 66
16. The city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
