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POPULATION. 



Britisli AVest Indies, where the philanthropists only found one to be 

 emancipated wliere four had been enslaved. 



But this rapid increase is by no means due to slavery. The free negroes 

 increased during slavery even more rapidly, and while their numbers 

 were augmented by manumitted slaves, the fact that their increase was 

 somewhat the same in the slave, as in the free States, shows that it was 

 dependent in a large degree on the birth rate. The numbers are for the 



FREE NEGROES. 



The census of 1880 shows that there are 6,580,793 negroes in the United 

 States, an increase of 1,980,793, or a natural increase of forty-three per 

 cent, during the fifteen years which have elapsed since emancipation. 



Practically, there has been no importation of negroes from foreign coun- 

 tries into South Carolina since 1810. By the U. S. Census of that year, 

 there were 200,919 negroes in the State. The census of 1880 shows that 

 the number has increased to 604,332. But these figures do not show the 

 full rate of increase. For in 1880, of negroes born in South Carolina there 

 were 93,498 residing in other States, chiefly in Georgia, Mississippi, Ala- 

 bama and Florida, in the order here named. On the other hand, there 

 were only 15,513 negroes residing in South Carolina, who were born out- 

 side of the limits of the State. Showing a nett loss of 77,985 by emigra- 

 tion in the negro population. Nor is this loss so great as the one in the 

 preceding decade on the same account. By the census of 1870, it appears 

 that 97,479 negroes born in South Carolina were living in other States, 

 while the negro population of the State was only increased by 7,219, born 

 beyond its limits, showing a nett loss of 90,260 in a smaller population 

 than that of 1880. 



The extraordinary rate of increase among the negro population is one 

 of the most interesting and important questions presented by the race 

 problem in America. J. Stahl Patterson, who has made a special study 

 of this subject, estimates this rate of increase for the negro race throughout 

 the United States has been 33J per cent, for the last decade, while that of 

 the native whites at the North was less than 15.7 per cent. Should these 

 respective rates of increase continue without interruption, for the next 

 century, the negro would outnumber the native Northern whites by 12,- 

 000,000, notwithstanding that at the present time the negroes stand six 

 and one-half millions to twentv-four and one-half millions of Northern 



