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.
Historical note by Tera Hunter
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
INDEX
I. Map of Seventh Ward, showing streets and political divisions
INTRODUCTION TO THE 1996 EDITION OF THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO
Elijah Anderson
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by W.E.B. DuBois was originally published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1899. One of the first works to combine the use of urban ethnography, social history, and descriptive statistics, it has become a classic work in the social science literature. For that reason alone it is an important study that deserves to be read by students of sociology and others interested in the development of the discipline in particular or in American intellectual history in general. W.E.B. DuBois is a founding father of American sociology, but, unfortunately, neither this masterpiece nor much of DuBoiss other work has been given proper recognition; in fact, it is possible to advance through a graduate program in sociology in this country without ever hearing about DuBois. It is my hope that this reprint edition will help rectify a situation undoubtedly rooted in the racial relationships of the era in which the book was first published.
This fine book, however, is no mere museum piece. Both the issues it raises and the evolution of
