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Additional authors

1. Eaton, Isabel
2. University of Pennsylvania, publisher
3. Ginn and Company, bookseller

Description

1. xx, 520 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : map, plans (some color); 26 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Series statement

1. Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law ; no. 14.

Uniform title

1. Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law ; no. 14.

Subject

1. African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions
2. Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations
3. African American household employees > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
4. Black author
5. United States > Race relations
6. Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions
7. African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Economic conditions
8. African Americans > Employment > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia

Contents

1. Preface ; Introduction -- The Philadelphia Negro: ch. 1. The scope of this study ; ch. 2. The problem ; ch. 3. The Negro in Philadelphia, 1638-1820 ; ch. 4. The Negro in Philadelphia, 1820-1896 ; ch. 5. The size, age and sex of the Negro population ; ch. 6. Conjugal condition ; ch. 7. Sources of the Negro population ; ch. 8. Education and illiteracy ; ch. 9. The occupation of Negroes ; ch. 10. The health of Negroes ; ch. 11. The Negro family ; ch. 12. The organized life of Negroes ; ch. 13. The negro criminal ; ch. 14. Pauperism and alcoholism ; ch. 15. The environment of the Negro ; ch. 16. The contact of the races ; ch. 17. Negro suffrage ; ch. 18. A final word ; app. A. Schedules used in the house-to-house inquiry ; app. B. Legislation, etc., of Pennsylvania in regard to the Negro ; app. C. Bibliography -- Special report on Negro domestic service in the Seventh Ward: 1. Introduction ; 2. Enumeration of Negro domestic servants ; 3. Sources of the supply and methods of hiring ; 4. Grades of services and wages ; 5. Savings and expenditure ; 6. Amusements and recreations ; 7. Length and quality of Negro domestic service ; 8. Conjugal condition, illiteracy and health of Negro domestics ; 9. Ideals of betterment -- Index.

Call number

1. Sc Rare 309.174-D (Du Bois, W. E. B. The Philadelphia Negro)

Note

1. "Special report on Negro domestic service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia"--pages [425]-509, by Isabel Eaton, has its own divisional title page.
2. At head of title: Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law. No. 14.
3. "Ginn & Co., selling agents, Tremont Place, Boston, Mass."--foot of title page.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-423) and index.

Indexed in (note)

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, author.

Title

1. The Philadelphia Negro : a social study / by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, Ph.D. some time assistant in sociology in the University of Pennsylvania, professor of economics and history in Atlanta University, author of "The suppression of the African slave-trade" ; together with a special report on domestic service by Isabel Eaton, A.M. fellow of the College Settlements' Association.

Publisher

1. Philadelphia : Published for the University, 1899.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law ; no. 14.
2. Publications of the University of Pennsylvania. Series in political economy and public law ; no. 14.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-423) and index.

Indexed in:

1. Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 3285

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 309.174-D (accession no. B526398) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Eaton, Isabel. Special report on Negro domestic service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia.
2. University of Pennsylvania, publisher.
3. Ginn and Company, bookseller.
4. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

LCCN

1. 05033530

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 309.174-D (Du Bois, W. E. B. The Philadelphia Negro)
2. IEC (Du Bois, W. E. B. Philadelphia Negro)