Census of 1870 and the Colored Population
THE vital statistics of the census of 1870 show that there are at present nearly five millions of colored people in the United States, most of whom are, of course, located in the South, and that the negro race has increased about 400,000 persons since the census of 1860. The character and status of this great mass of freed men and women will be amply discussed in the various papers of “The Great South” series now in course of publication in Scribner’s Monthly and their songs, their sermons, their ceremonials, their political meetings, and their traditions and superstitions, will be shown by the labors of both pen and pencil.