MOVEMENT OF TEE COLORED POPULATION. 785 



for the decade from 1860 to 1870, embracing the last three years of 

 slavery and the first seven of freedom : 



STATES. 



Dist. of Columb 



Florida 



Texas 



Georgia 



Tennessee 



Arkansas 



Alabama 



North Carolina, 



I860. 



14,316 



62,677 

 182,921 

 465,698 

 283,019 

 111,259 

 437,770 

 361,052 



18?0. 



43,404 

 91,689 

 253,475 

 545,142 

 322,331 

 122,169 

 475,510 

 391,650 



Gain 

 per cent. 



203-1 



46-3 



38-6 



171 



13-9 



9-8 



8-6 



8-3 



STATES. 



Delaware 



Louisiana 



Maryland 



Mississippi , . , . 

 South Carolina. 



Missouri 



Va. and W. Va. 

 Kentucky 



Gain 

 percent. 



5-4 

 4-0 

 2-5 

 1-5 



0-9 



0-4 loss 

 d-3 " 

 6-9 " 



The drift is mainly toward the two new States, Texas and Florida. 

 A great change has come over the District of Columbia. From stand- 

 ing near the foot of the list in the previous table, it is now at the 

 head. The freedmen found protection and encouragement, with a 

 large demand for such labor as they are qualified to do, and hence 

 they flocked to the District. The border States are worse off than 

 during the previous decade, owing, no doubt, to the war and to the 

 proximity of the old free States, in which the freedmen found more 

 sympathy than among their former jieighbors. 



The following table shows the colored increase of the principal 

 I^orthern States for the same decade, and shows what has become of 

 a part of the freedmen : 



STATES. 



Kansas . . 

 Iowa . . . , 

 Illinois . . 

 Indiana . 

 Michigan 

 Ohio .". . . 



STATES. 



Massachusetts. 

 Rhode Island. 

 New Jersey . . . 

 Pennsylvania . 

 Connecticut.. . 

 New York . . . . 



Gain 



per cent. 



45-3 



26-0 

 21-0 

 14-7 

 12-0 

 6-3 



The aggregate increase in these twelve States was from 217,092 to 

 327,882, or 51*0 per cent., being 41 per cent, more than the average 

 increase of all the colored in the United States for the same period. 

 Only one State (ISTew York) fell below this average. 



The following table shows the increase of the colored population in 

 the former slave States for the last decade, 1870 to 1880 : 



TOL. XIX. 50 



