The Decadence of the lueaker Race. 



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table shows the proportions of the two races, given in percent- 

 ages of the total, at each census : 



White and colortd Popidation by Decades. 



Ratios of ivhite and colored Population by Decades. 



Census years. 



1790 

 1800 

 1810 

 1820 

 1830 

 1840 

 1850 

 I860 

 1870 

 1880 

 1890 



White. 



Colored. 



In 1790 the first census showed that the colored race formed 

 nearly one-fifth of the poj^ulation. In 1840, after fifty years had 

 elapsed, during which time the country had received practically 

 no increase from immigration, the proportion of colored had 

 fallen to about one-sixth of the whole. In the next half century, 

 which closed in 1890, during which the white race has received 

 great additions from immigration, that proportion had fallen to 

 less than one-eighth of the Avhole population. 



Summing it up, the colored race forms today less than two- 

 thirds the proportion of the j^opulation which it formed a cen- 

 tury ago. 



