--+------+-------+-------
| | | | Per || |Negro.| | Per
| Total. |Negro.|Number.| cent || Total. | [B] |Number.| cent
-----+---------+------+-------+-------++---------+------+-------+-------
1704 | -- | 1,500| -- | -- || -- | -- | -- | --
1741 | -- | 2,000| 500|33.3 || -- | -- | -- | --
1757 | -- | 3,000| 1,000|50.0 || -- | -- | -- | --
1790 | 44,906| 5,915| 2,915|97.2 || 4,495| 1,478| -- | --
1800 | 73,476| 8,626| 2,711|45.9 || 5,740| 1,811| 333|25.5
1810 | 111,431|12,116| 3,490|40.4 || 8,303| 1,853| 42| 2.3
1820 | 140,869|13,100| 984| 8.1 || 11,187| 1,761| 92| 4.9[C]
1830 | 221,743|16,082| 2,982|22.8 || 20,535| 2,007| 246|13.9
1840 | 343,501|18,595| 2,573|15.6 || 47,613| 2,846| 839|41.8
1850 | 557,233|16,131| 2,464|13.2[C]|| 138,882| 4,065| 1,219|42.8
1860 | 895,657|14,927| 1,204| 7.5[C]|| 279,122| 4,999| 934|22.9
1870 |1,058,182|15,755| 828| 5.5 || 419,921| 5,653| 654|13.1
1880 |1,312,203|22,496| 6,741|42.8 || 599,495| 9,153| 3,500|61.9
1890 |1,668,867|26,330| 3,834|17.0 || 838,547|11,307| 2,154|23.5
1900 |2,270,620|42,299| 15,969|60.6 ||1,166,582|18,367| 7,060|62.5
1910 |3,132,532|69,700| 27,403|64.8 ||1,634,351|22,702| 4,335|23.6
-----+---------+------+-------+-------++---------+------+-------+-------
[A] Figures 1704-1757 from Du Bois, _Notes_, _etc._, p. 1.

[B] Negro not reported separately 1790 to 1850; includes
"slaves" and all other "Free Colored" which does not involve
serious error in the earlier censuses.

Census figures 1790-1910 are from the latest revisions of the
Bureau of the Census. Figures for same area, outside of
Manhattan and Brooklyn, are estimates of censuses 1790-1890.
Figures for 1900 and 1910 are exact.

[C] Decrease.

To summarize the point, while the Negro population has become a
smaller relative part of the total population each decade since 1810,
it has shown a decided trend toward a large actual increase.

The distribution of the Negro population has varied with its increase
and with the growth of the city. But almost from the beginning,
probably the environing white group has segregated the Negroes into
separate neighborhoods. The figures available for Brooklyn do not
permit a positive inference, but in Manhattan, while the areas
populated by N