Index

Note: Page numbers within braces denotes Endnote.

Abolition of slavery, 9, 12, 22, 288, 290

Abolition Society, 11, 12, 18

Addison street, 40, 246

Adger, Robert, 20, 84

African M. E. Church, 12, 148–50

African M. E. Zion Church, 162

Afro-American League, 260

Age of Negroes, 35, 36, 37, 41, 42 (44)

Allen, Richard, 10, 11, 12, 12f

Alleys, 38

Alleys, blind, 210

Alleys where Negroes live, 220

Amalgamation, 247

Amendments, 8(13), 259

Amusements, 221, 226–27

Anglo-Saxons, 269

Aristocracy among Negroes, 127, 225–28

Arrests, 170, 171, 174

Artists, Negro, 20

Assiento treaty, 8, 288

Augustin, Peter, 19, 20

Bakers, Negro, 83

Baptist Church among Negroes, 148–49

Barbers, 81–82

Bath rooms and water-closets, 209–210

Beneficial Societies, Negro, 130, 154–55, 157

Benevolence, 245

Benevolent institutions for Negroes, 245

Benezet, Anthony, 7, 12, 59

Bethel Church, 143

Bettle, Edward, 16

Bird school, 60

Birthplace of Negroes, 51, 54–55, 56

Birth rate, 104

Blockley almshouse, 195

Bogle, Robert, 19–20

Bribery in voting, 259–60, 261

Budgets of families, 123

Building and Loan Association, 130, 157

Cake-walks, 226

Candy and notion stores, 82

Caterers’ Association, 83

Caterers, decline of Negro, 83–84

history of Negro, 18, 20, 83f

Catholic Church among Negroes, 152, 154

Catto, Octavius V., 22–23

Catto School, 243

Cemeteries, Negro, 155, 160

Central Church, 151

Charities, color discrimination in, 245–46

Charity Organization Society, 196–98

Cherry Street Church, 151

Children s Aid Society, 196–97

Children, destitute, 196–97

Church affiliations, 147–48

Churches, activities of, 147

annual budget of, 144–45

condition of, 147–48

Negro, 141, 142

Negro and amusements, 136

Negro, history of, 141ff

typical organization of, 143–44

Cigar stores, 82

Cities, migration to, 244

Northern, Negroes in, 4

rush of Negroes to, 169

City population, Negro, 31–34

Citizens’ Club, 264

Civil rights, 291, 292

Clarkson, Mayor, 10

Classes among Negroes, 274

Clerks, Negroes as, 90–91

Clothing of Negroes, 115–16

Clubs, political, 263–64

Coates Street School, 60

Color discrimination, 273–74

in charities, 245–46

in discharging employes, 237–38

in getting work, 229–30, 231–33

in promotion of Negro employes, 238–39

in rents, 211–12, 240–41

in schools, 241–42

Color discrimination, in trades, 90 (102–103), 233–34

typical cases of, 232ff

in wages, 94f, 230, 239–40

in woman’s work, 235–36

Color line in work, 236

Color prejudice, 98–99, 202–04

Condition of Negroes, 18, 20, 21

Condition of slaves, 9

Conjugal condition, 45ff

Confidence-men, 185

Convention of Negroes, 13 (14), 18

Co-operative Caterers’ Supply Store, 84

Co-operative stores, 82, 159

Correction, House of, Negroes in, 172

Court of Errors and Appeals on Suffrage, 258

Crime, 271, 288

according to years, 177

causes of, 95, 204

character of, 176

and illiteracy, 179–81, 183

history of Negro, 59ff

improper charges of, 189–90

kinds of, 169

of Negroes, 166, 167, 168, 168–69

punishment of, 175f

recent increase of, 169, 174–75

serious, 176–77

since the war, 169ff

special study of, 175ff

Criminal class, 181

Criminals, 18, 166ff

age of, 179–81

birthplace of, 179

conjugal condition of, 179

sex of, 178

Crucifixion, Church of, 152–54

Death rate, 105, 106–07, 107–10, 112, 113–14 by wards, 108

Dentists, 81

Derham, Negro physician, 10

Desertion of husbands and wives, 45

Detectives, Negroes arrested by, 181 (191)

Dickinson, Anna, 22

Discrimination, see Prejudice and Color discrimination

Diseases of Negroes, 107

Distribution of Negroes, 21, 57

Distribution of Negroes in the city, 214–217

proportion of Negroes in, 93

Douglass, Frederick, 22

Hospital, 159–60

Drink habit, 198–201

Duties of slaves, 8, 9, 287, 288

Duty of Negroes, 270ff

Duty of Whites, 273ff

Education of Negroes, 59ff, 66, 67

Emancipation, 9, 12, 22, 288, 289

Employment agencies, 83

Environment of Negroes, 203–04

Episcopal Church among Negroes, 152–54

Estates, value of, 128 (139)

Excess of young people, 35f

Excursions, 227

Expenditures of Negroes, 127f, 272

Exploitation of the Negro, 134

Extinction of the Negro, 270

Families, size of, 118ff, 196f, 226 (228)

Family festivals, 136

Females, excess of, 34–35

Food of Negroes, 115, 123ff

Forten, James, 13

Foundlings, 196–97

Free African Society, 10f, 11, 12

Free Masons, 155

Free Negroes, 9, 11

Friends and slavery, 7, 9, 13

Fugitive slaves, 15

sale of, 291

Function of churches, 143, 144–46

Gallatin, Albert, 258

Gambling, 188–89, 263f

Gibson, Judge, on suffrage, 258

Gordon, Judge J. G., on crime, 169 (190)

Graduates, Negro, occupations of, 243–44

Graduates, Negro, of schools, occupations of, 243–44

Grocery stores, 82

Hayti, revolt in, 12–13

Hazel, Mayor, 166f

Health of Negroes, 104ff, 115

Health, see Servants

Heredity in disease, 116

History of Negroes in Philadelphia, 6ff

Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons, 159

Home for the Homeless, 160

Home life, 49, 134–36

Homes by size and inhabitants, 209, 212–14

Homes of laboring class, 210–11

of poor, 209–10

House-to-house inquiry, 40

Houses and rents, 205–08

Housing of the poor, 209–10

Humanity, idea of, 269

Humphreys, Richard, 62

Illiteracy and crime, 179–80, 183

of Negroes, 59ff, 60, 62, 65, 66, 66 (68)

Illiteracy, see Servants

Immigrants, 51, 53, 291

foreign, 15, 23f

Negro, 217

Immigration of Negroes, 291

Incomes of Negroes, 120–22

Increase of Negroes in U. S., 30–31

Negro population, 28–29, 41

Whites, 28, 29

Infusion of white blood, 246ff

Insane among Negroes, 196

Insurance, life, 292

Insurance Societies, Negro, 157

petty, character of, 131

expenditures for, 131

losses by, 132–34

rates of, 131

sick and death benefits of, 131

Intermarriage of races, 246ff

in Ward Seven, 248–53

statute on, 248

Intermarried persons, white and black, age of, 249, 250f

birthplace of, 249, 250

Intermarried persons, character of, 252–53

children of, 250, 251

illiteracy of, 250, 251

occupations of, 250, 251

rooms and rents paid by, 252–53

social grades of, 251

Jones, Absalom, 10, 11, 12, 13, 141

Henry, 19, 20

Juan, a slave, 17

Kelley, W. D., 22

Kidnapping of Negroes, 290

Kieth, 7

Laboring class among Negroes, 125–26, 224–25

Lawyers, 80–81

Legislation of Pennsylvania on Negroes, 287ff

Length of residence of Negroes, 55–56

Liquors, alcoholic, expenditure for, 201

Literature concerning Philadelphia Negroes, 293

of Philadelphia Negroes, 294

Literary societies, 24

Loan associations, 157

Lodgers, 118–19, 194

Lodging system, 136

Lombard street, 38, 40, 210f, 211

Marriage, 7, 46–48, 49, 119

Marriage of whites and blacks, 246ff

Marriage rate, 120

Marriages, slave, 287

Maryland, migration from, 52

Mechanics, Negro, 288

opposition of white, 288, 289

Membership of churches, 145

Methodist Church and the Negroes, 10

among Negroes, 147–50

Merchants, Negro, 81ff, 85, 86–87

Methods of inquiry, 1

Middle alley, 38

Middle classes among Negroes, 224–25

Midvale Steel Works, 89f, 234

Migration of laborers, annual, 92

Ministers, Baptist, 79

Methodist, 79

Negro, 79

Minton, Henry, 19, 20

Miscegenation, 246ff

Missions, Negro, 154

Mixed marriages, 246ff

Mixed schools, 219

Movement of Negro population, 217

Moyamensing prison, Negroes in, 168, 171, 173

Mulattoes, 145, 245

“Negro Plot” in New York, 288

Negro problems, 3, 268–70

“Negro,” use of term, 1(2)

Newspapers and periodicals, Negro, 24, 87f, 159

Night schools, 61, 66

Number of Negroes, 8, 10, 15, 30ff, 33, 38, 41–42

Occupations, 69ff, 77–78, 96–99

history of, 96ff

of graduates of schools, 243–44

Odd Fellows, 155–57

Officeholders, Negro, 265–66

Organizations of Negroes, 141ff, 161

Ownership of property, 128ff

Pauperism, 289, 290

Negro, 193f

Paupers in almshouse, 195

typical families of, 196–98

Penitentiary, Eastern, Negroes in, 167f, 172, 174, 175

Penn, Wm., and slavery, 7, 10

Pennsylvania Hall, 17

Physicians, 80–81

Pocketbook snatching, 185–86

Policemen, Negroes as, 90f

Policy playing, 188

Political clubs, 263–64

Politics of Philadelphia, 259

Poor class among Negroes, 123–24, 224

Potters’ field, 290

Poverty, causes of, 197, 202–04

Preachers, Negro, see also Ministers 79, 146

Prejudice, color, 229ff, 261

against Negroes in business, 240–41

connection with crime, 242–43

results of, 231, 242