1883.

INDEX

Assembly districts, Negroes in, 52-53

Back-to-the-land movement, 33

Business establishments, nature of, 98
Classified, 99
Floor space occupied by, 106
Gross receipts of, 113-114
Length of residence in New York of proprietors of, 101
Number of employees in, 105
Ownership of, 100
Permanence of location of, 118-119
Table of floor space of, 107
Table of gross receipts of, 115

City growth, causes of, 13
Foot-note on, 43-44

Colonial General Assembly, laws passed by, 94-95

Colored American (newspaper), 67, 96

Crime in cities, 39-41

Death-rates of whites and Negroes, 34-37
Changes in Richmond, Va., 37-38

Diagrams:
I. Increase of whites and Negroes in cities, 16
II. Death-rates in cities, 36
III. Distribution of Negro population in Harlem, 50
IV. Distribution of Negro population in "San Juan Hill" district, 51

Freedmen, as shiphands, 66
Property escheated, 95

Health of Negroes in cities, 34-38

Industrial centers, migration of Negroes to, 19-25

Lake George, Negroes in battle of, 66

Lodgers, natural members and, 62
Consist of, 63
Natural members in families, 62-63
Number of lodgers in families, 64

Migration to cities, 15-17
Secondary causes of, 29

Nativity of Negroes, of New York State, 57
Of New York City, 58-59
Of West Indians, 58
Of business proprietors, 100

Negro population of New York, table showing growth of, 47
Distribution of 2,500 families in, 52-53
Segregation of Negro, 48-51

Negro, riot of 1712, 95
So-called plot of 1741, 67

New Amsterdam Colony, slaves as laborers in, 66
Slaves owned land in, 67

Occupations, history of, 66-69
In 1890 and 1900, 69-71
In 1905, 72
Proportion of males and females in, 73
Tables of, 71-72, 74

Reasons for Negroes coming to New York, 27-28
Tables of, 27, 31-32

Slaves, as farm laborers and stevedores, 66
Able to hold land, 67
Forbidden to trade, 94

Soil, divorce of Negro from, 18-19

United Public Waiters, 68
Becomes Beneficial Association, 69

United States, city growth in, 13

Wages, in domestic and personal service, 78-79
In hotel service, 81
Table of, 80-81
Union rates, 82

Wage-earners, sex and age, 54-55
Efficiency of male, 83
Efficiency of female, 84
Efficiency of skilled, 88
Marital condition of, 60-61
Tables of efficiency of, 85, 87

Wilcox, Professor, quoted, 1