74 REPORTS OF" inve;stigations and projects. 



I. 1619-1793. The Beginnings of Slavery, from the Introduction of Slavery to the 



Invention of the Cotton Gin. 



1. A brief review of the condition of laboring classes during the American colonial 



period. 



2. The introduction of negro slavery into America. 



3. The importation of white convicts and indentured servants. 



4. The development in the southern colonies of an agricultural system based upon 



negro slavery. (A brief review of the parallel growth of such system in 

 the West Indies.) 



5. Why was such development confined to the southern colonies? 



6. Effect of England's colonial system or commercial policy on American slavery. 



II. 1793-1860. Negro Slavery as an Economic System. 



1. The African and domestic slave-trade as related to the increase and distribution 



of negro population. 



2. The place of slave labor in the growth of national wealth. (The development 



and value of "slave products" — cotton, tobacco, sugar, indigo, and rice — 

 under the slavery system, and the balance of trade as affected by such 

 products.) 



3. West Indian competition in such products in the world's markets. (Its import- 



ance and its decline ; the growth and significance of the American raw cot- 

 ton monopoly.) 



4. The development of American and English cotton manufacturing as related to 



the growth of the raw product by slave labor. 



5. Why was not the South a manufacturing section prior to i860? (Efforts to 



utilize slave labor in manufacturing and other industrial enterprises ; 

 southern ante-bellum prison systems as related to the training of slaves 

 for such pursuits; beginning and decline of southern manufacturing effort.) 



6. The effect of the "slave system" upon the economic life of the Southern States, 



as compared with the development of other sections of the country. Effect 

 of slave labor on white free labor ; was the economic contest between the 

 Northern and Southern States before i860 a contest between two systems 

 of labor, or between two classes of labor? Between "freedom" and "slav- 

 ery" or between white and negro labor? (The comparative cost and value 

 of free and slave labor, and of white and negro labor.) 



7. The relation between slavery in the Southern States and the distribution of 



European immigration to America before i860. 



8. The economic status of the American negro in i860. (The distribution and 



condition of free negroes, including Canadian and other "free negro" 

 colonies ; their wealth ; their position in the trades and in business ; as 

 owners of real estate and slaves ; the attitude of white labor and of labor 

 vmions toward free negroes, emancipation and negro competition ; State 

 and Federal legislation affecting the economic condition of free negroes; 

 negro benefit societies and similar organizations. Also the distribution of 

 slave population, and its economic position as related to the fields of 

 agriculture and the simpler mechanic arts.) 



9. The institution of slavery as administered in the Southern States as a factor in 



the subsequent economic life of the American negro. 



III. 1860-1880. The Economic Transition from Slavery to Freedom. 



1. The readjustment of the relations between capital and labor after emancipation. 



(The relations between landlord and tenant.) 



2. The economic purpose and operation of apprenticeship and vagrancy laws in the 



evolution of free negro labor. (To include a comparative review of such 

 laws in the West Indies, and of "gradual emancipation," the indenture and 

 coolie systems, as related to such evolution.) 



3. The Freedmen's Bureau as a factor in the evolution of negro labor. (A brief 



review of the Freedmen's Bank to be included.) 



4. The immediate economic effect of emancipation, as indicated in the production 



of southern agricultural commodities during the period of readjustment. 

 (Brief review of effect in West Indies.) 



5. The economic significance of the "Kansas exodus" of 1879-80. 



6. The end of an era of unrest. 



