1 8 Negro Migration 



sidered as a fair sample of the Cotton States. The increase 

 in total Negro population in Georgia, was 13.7 per cent, a 

 rate only exceeded by Florida, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and 

 some of the Northern States with relatively small Negro 

 populations. The rate of increase in Georgia was slightly 

 higher than the rate of increase of Negroes in the country 

 as a whole. 



As far as the rural population is concerned, one power- 

 ful cause of increase is evident in the substantial growth 

 in the number of farms operated by Negroes. The census 

 classification of farm operators includes all persons cul- 

 tivating the soil except laborers, consequently an increase 

 in farms operated by Negroes indicates a passage from 

 the status of laborer, occupied all Negro agricultural work- 

 ers under the system of slavery, to the status of a farmer 

 cultivating the land in a more or less independent manner. 

 The increase in Negro farms and its relation to the increase 

 in rural population is shown in the following table : 



TABLE 1. 



Increases in Negro Rural Population and Negro Farms, 



Cotton States, 1900-1910 a 



Numerical Increase Percentage Increase 



Rural Rural 



State Population Farms Population Farms 



Florida 38,489 1,177 21.1 8.7 



Arkansas 54,059 16,600 16.3 35.3 



Georgia 78,409 39,732 9.0 48.0 



Mississippi 63,325 36,137 7 A 28.2 



N. Carolina 33,568 10,460 6.1 19.4 



S. Carolina 36,178 11,391 5.2 13.3 



Louisiana 19,179 —3,277 3.6 —5.6 



Alabama 22,526 16,318 3.1 17.3 



Texas 9,792 4,344 2.0 6.6 



3 Computed from U. S. Census of 1910, "Negro Population in 

 the United States, 1790-1915," pp. 92 and 588. The words "com- 

 puted from" as used here and in succeeding footnotes indicate 

 that the figures given are not directly copied from the census, 

 but are arrived at by subtractions or combinations of figures 

 from the tables cited. 



