Title: The Philadelphia negro :
Authors: Du Bois, W. E. B.
Date: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xxx, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: F
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.
Notes: Originally published: Philadelphia : The University, 1899, in series: Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law. With new introd.
Subject headings (LCSH): African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions--19th century.; African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social life and customs--19th century.; African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.; African Americans--Social conditions.; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations--History--19th century.; Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions--19th century.; Sociology--United States.