Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York

by Mary White Ovington

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Population of New York from 1800 to 1900: Total and Negro.

BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN
	Total	Negro	Percentage of Negroes
1800	60,515	6,382	10.5
1810	96,373	9,823	10.2
1820	123,706	10,886	8.8
1830	202,589	13,976	6.9
1840	312,710	16,358	5.2
1850	515,547	13,815	2.7
1860	805,658	12,574	1.6
1870	942,292	13,072	1.5
BOROUGHS OF MANHATTAN AND BRONX
1880	1,206,299	19,663	1.6
1890	1,515,301	23,601	1.6
1900	2,050,600	38,616	1.9
GREATER NEW YORK
1900	3,437,202	60,666	1.8

[4] For a full account of the Negro's political status in New York consult Charles Z. Lincoln's "Constitutional History of New York."

[5] Thomas Boese's "Public Education in the City of New York," p. 227.

[6] King v. Gallagher, 1882.

[7] A. Emerson Palmer, "The New York Public School."

[8] Laws of New York, Chapter 492.

[9] B. F. Wheeler, D.D., "The Varick Family."

[10] Geo. H. Hansell, "Reminiscences of New York Baptists."

[11] New York Tribune, February 23, 1855.