[26] In Georgia, for example, there were in 1860, 462,198 slaves, owned by 41,084 owners.
[27] According to the Educational Report of the United States Bureau of Education for 1898-1899, “the total enrolment in the public schools of the South (the sixteen former slave-States and the District of Columbia) for the year 1898-1899 was 5,662,259; the number of white children being 4,150,641 and the number of negro children 1,511,618.” Of the white school population (5,954,400), 69.71 per cent. were enrolled in the public schools, and of the negro school population (2,912,910), 51.89 per cent.
[28] George H. White, of North Carolina.
[29] “The American Negro,” by William Hannibal Thomas, p. 74. Macmillan & Co.
[30] Wrong of Slavery and Right of Emancipation: R. D. Owen, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1864.
[31] In Arkansas the total value of all property, including railroad property of the State, is $225,276,681. The taxes assessed on the property of the whites were $3,699,025, while the taxes assessed on the property of the Negroes were $205,954. The value of the property held by the Negroes was obtained by assigning to them an amount proportionate to the taxes paid by them.
| Number of | Value of Farm | |
| Farms. | Property. | |
| Owners | 174,434 | $150,557,251 |
| Part Owners | 30,501 | 27,358,225 |
| Owners and Tenants | 1,582 | 1,881,163 |
| Managers | 1,824 | 9,777,377 |
| Cash Tenants | 274,663 | 178,300,242 |
| Share Tenants | 284,760 | 178,849,250 |
[33] The Comptroller-General of Georgia reports that the assessed value of the property of the white taxpayers of Georgia for 1902 was $452,122,577. The property of the Negro taxpayers in the State of Georgia for the same year was assessed at $15,188,069. This sum, though considerably larger than that estimated by Professor Du Bois, is only 3.25 per cent. of the total assessment of the State.
[34] World Almanac, 1903.