THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO
by W.E.B. DuBois
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. The Scope of This Study
1. General aim
2. The
methods of inquiry
3. The
credibility of the results
CHAPTER II. The Problem
4. The Negro
problems of Philadelphia
5. The plan
of presentment
CHAPTER III. The Negro in Philadelphia, 1638-1820
6. General survey
7. The
transplanting of the Negro, 1638-1760
8.
Emancipation, 1760-1780
9. The rise
of the freedmen, 1780-1820
CHAPTER IV. The Negro in Philadelphia, 1820-1896
10. Fugitives and
foreigners, 1820-1840
11. The guild
of the caterers, 1840-1870
12. The
influx of the freedmen, 1870-1896
CHAPTER V. The Size, Age and Sex of the Negro Population
13. The city for
a century
14. The
Seventh Ward, 1896
CHAPTER VI. Conjugal Condition
15. The Seventh
Ward
16. The city
CHAPTER VII. Sources of the Negro Population
17. The Seventh
Ward
18. The city
CHAPTER VIII. Education and Illiteracy
19. The history
of Negro education
20. The
present condition
CHAPTER IX. The Occupation of Negroes
21. The question of earning a living
22. Occupations in the Seventh Ward
23. Occupations in the city
24. History of the occupations of Negroes
CHAPTER X. The Health of Negroes
25. The
interpretation of statistics
26. The
statistics of the city
CHAPTER XI. The Negro Family
27. The size of
the family
28. Incomes
29. Property
30. Family
life
CHAPTER XII. The Organized Life of Negroes
31. History of
the Negro church in Philadelphia
32. The
function of the Negro church
33. The present
condition of the churches
34. Secret
and beneficial societies and cooperative business
35.
Institutions
36. The
experiment of organization
CHAPTER XIII. The Negro Criminal
37. History of
Negro crime in the city
38. Negro
crime since the war
39. A special
study in crime
40. Some
cases of crime
CHAPTER XIV. Pauperism and Alcoholism
41. Pauperism
42. The drink
habit
43. The
causes of crime and poverty
CHAPTER XV. The Environment of the Negro
44. Houses and
rent
45. Sections
and wards
46. Social
classes and amusements
CHAPTER XVI. The Contact of the Races
47. Color
prejudice
48.
Benevolence
49. The
intermarriage of the races
CHAPTER XVII. Negro Suffrage
50. The
significance of the experiment
51. The
history of Negro suffrage in Pennsylvania
52. City politics
53. Some bad results of Negro suffrage
54. Some good results of Negro suffrage
55. The paradox of reform
CHAPTER XVIII. A Final Word
56. The meaning of all this
57. The duty of the Negroes
58. The duty of the whites
APPENDIX A. Schedules used in the house-to-house inquiry
APPENDIX B. Legislation, etc., of Pennsylvania in regard to the Negro
APPENDIX C. Bibliography
SPECIAL
REPORT ON NEGRO DOMESTIC SERVICE
IN THE SEVENTH WARD.
I. Introduction
II. Enumeration
of Negro domestic servants
Recent
reform in domestic service
Enumeration
III. Sources of
the supply and methods of hiring
Methods of
hiring
Personnel of
colored domestic service
IV. Grades of
service and wages
Work
required of various sub-occupations
V. Savings and
expenditure
Assistance
given by domestic servants
Summary
VI. Amusements
and recreations
VII. Length and
quality of Negro domestic service
VIII. Conjugal
condition, illiteracy and health of Negro domestics
Conjugal
condition
Health
statistics for domestic servants
IX. Ideals of
betterment
From W.E.B. DuBois, The Philadelphia Negro. New York:
Lippincott, 1899. Table of Contents.
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