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from Yale, and Dr. Clive Day is in charge of the work. He reports that 

 during the present year no monographs have been pubHshed in this division, 

 but Dr. Alba M. Edwards has completed his report on the Marine Hospital 

 Service of the United States, which report is now in manuscript and awaiting 

 publication. The work of this division is being carried on progressively 

 and a vast deal of material has been collected. 



Division ii. — Federal and State Finance, Including Taxation. 



Prof. Henry B. Gardner in charge. As an auxiliary to the work of this 

 division Dr. Charles C. Williamson has published, in the Columbia University 

 studies in history, economics, and law, "The finances of Cleveland," a work 

 of 266 pages, including a most excellent index. This division, as well as that 

 of Money and Banking, has met the greatest difficulty in securing competent 

 investigators, but its work is well advanced. 



Division 12. — The Negro in Slavery and Freedom. 



At the time of my last report this division was just being started. It is 

 under the charge of Mr. Alfred H. Stone, of Mississippi, and during the 

 current year has made great progress, but has not yet been able to publish 

 anything. As this is practically a new division and no syllabus has been 

 published heretofore by the Institution, I think it is well for those who are 

 interested in this most important, complicated, and delicate subject that Mr. 

 Stone's syllabus be printed in full as part of this report, and it is herewith 

 appended. 



THE NEGRO IN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM.* 



The scheme submitted herewith is intended to outline a reasonably exhaust- 

 ive treatment of the economic life of the American negro without trespassing 

 upon either its political or social aspects. The difficulty of treating the one 

 as separated from the other two is frankly recognized, but the desirability of 

 such a method is believed to more than outweigh the difficulties involved in 

 its execution. In so far, then, as this is possible it would be adhered to. 

 Every care would be exercised to prevent an important economic study from 

 degenerating into anything bearing the least resemblance to a discussion of 

 the so-called "negro problem." We have to do with the negro's contribu- 

 tions to American economic history; with the "problems" which may have 

 been created by his presence we here have no concern. 



The treatment would aim to be something more than purely statistical. 

 An effort would be made to interpret the salient features of negro life in 

 terms of their economic significance, both to the race and to the country as 

 a whole. The purpose would be to correlate the negro's economic history 

 with that of the American people along certain broad lines, as, for example, 

 through the cotton industry and in the creation of national wealth and 

 favorable trade balances, as affected by products closely identified with negro 

 labor. 



* A Syllabus submitted by Alfred Holt Stone. 



