69] LANDOWNERSHIP AMONG THE NEGROES 69 



the percentages of increase or decrease from year to 

 year : x 



From 1874 to 1884 there was an increase of one hun- 

 dred and twenty-six per cent in the amount of land 

 owned by negroes; from 1884 to 1894 the increase was 

 forty per cent; from 1894 to 1903 the increase was seven- 

 teen per cent. Or, to consider other periods, from 1874 

 to 1880 the increase was seventy-three per cent; from 

 1880 to 1890 it was sixty-four per cent; from 1890 to 



1 Based on the figures given in the annual reports of the comptroller- 

 general. For some of the figures see Du Bois, The Negro Landholder 

 of Georgia, published in Bulletin No. 35, of Department of Labor, p. 

 665. Du Bois's monograph contains many interesting facts regarding 

 the ownership of property among the negroes of Georgia. 





