The Philadelphia Negro
Subtitle: a social study
By: W.E.B. Du Bois ; introduction by Lawrence Bobo
Series: The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780195311808; 9780195325720
Subjects: African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The scope of this study; title: The problem; title: The Negro in Philadelphia, 1638-1820; title: The Negro in Philadelphia, 1820-1896; title: The size, age and sex of the Negro population; title: Conjugal condition; title: Sources of the Negro population; title: Education and illiteracy; title: The occupations of Negroes; title: The health of Negroes; title: The Negro family; title: The organized life of Negroes; title: The Negro criminal; title: Pauperism and alcoholism; title: The environment of the Negro; title: The contact of the races; title: Negro suffrage; title: A final word