8o REPORTS OF INVESTIGATIONS AND PROJECTS. 



Financial history of Vermont, by Dr. Frederick A. Wood (author of the study of 

 taxation in Vermont in the Columbia University Studies). Mr. Wood has 

 practically completed this study, except for the copying. 



Financial history of Minnesota, by Dr. R. V. Phelan, University of Minnesota. 

 Dr. Phelan has just completed this work. 



Professor Gardner has also employed for fifteen months past Miss Lorian 

 P, Jefferson, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, who has 

 made a very thorough examination of the material, other than public docu- 

 ments, bearing on the financial history of the United States, in the most 

 important libraries east of the Mississippi and in Missouri, 



Division XII.— THE NEGRO IN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM. 



The work of this division has been interrupted during the past year by 

 unforeseen circumstances. Mr. Alfred H. Stone, who has charge of this 

 topic and who had already made gratifying progress with it, found himself 

 obliged, on account of the ravages of the cotton boll weevil, to suspend liter- 

 ary work in the spring of the present year and devote himself for a time to 

 the warfare against this pest, which has already done so much damage to the 

 country at large, and which seriously threatened investments in Mississippi, 

 on the income from which Mr. Stone was relying to pursue his scientific 

 work. Mr. Stone is one of those who have not asked for or received any 

 compensation for their services, and this interruption, while primarily made 

 for the purpose of protecting his business interests, will ultimately, we hope, 

 contribute toward the advancement of his work for the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington, 



The plan which Mr. Stone blocked out in the beginning was to embody the 

 results of his work in three volumes, each covering a period in the history of 

 the American negro, but each complete in itself. The first volume was to ex- 

 tend from the introduction of negro slaves into the East Indies down to the 

 invention of the cotton gin; that is, from 1501 to 1793. The second volume 

 was to cover the history of the negro in slavery, from 1793 to 1861. The 

 third volume was to treat of the economic history of the race under freedom. 

 Most of the material for volume i has been gathered, and the actual writing 

 of the volume commenced. Mr. Stone hopes to complete it during 1910. 

 Much of the material for the two later volumes has also been gathered, and 

 Mr. Stone intends to devote all of the time that he can spare from necessary 

 business demands to the completion of the work. 



INDEX OF STATE DOCUMENTS. 



This work, which is under the supervision of a special bibliographical com- 

 mittee, consisting of Professors Henry B. Gardner, Walter F. Willcox, and 

 Davis R. Dewey, is being carried forward energetically by Miss Adelaide R. 

 Hasse, of the New York Public Library. In addition to the volumes for 

 Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, and Massachu- 



