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Title: The Negro Farmer

Author: Carl Kelsey

Release Date: August 17, 2009 [EBook #29714]

Language: English

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THE NEGRO FARMER

By CARL KELSEY

A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA IN
PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
THE DEGREE OF PH. D.

Printed and on sale by

JENNINGS & PYE

CHICAGO

1903

PRICE FIFTY CENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Introduction 5

II. Geographic Location 9

III. Economic Heritage 22

IV. Present Situation 29

Virginia 32

Sea Coast 38

Central District 43

Alluvial Region 52

V. Social Environment 61

VI. The Outlook 67

VII. Agricultural Training 71

Population Maps 80

=OLD-TIME NEGROES.=

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.

In the last three hundred years there have been many questions of
general interest before the American people. It is doubtful, however, if
there is another problem, which is as warmly debated to-day as ever and
whose solution is yet so uncertain, as that of the Negro. In the second
decade of the seventeenth century protests were being filed against
black slavery, but the system was continued for nearly 250 years. The
discussion grew more and more bitter, and to participation in it
ignorance, then as now, was no bar. The North had less and less direct
contact with the Negro. The religious hostility to human bondage was
strengthened by the steadily increasing difference in economic
development which resulted in the creation of sectional prejudices and
jealousies. The North held the negro to be g