-----+--------------------------------++-------------------------------- | New York City, exclusive of || | Brooklyn. || Brooklyn. -----+----------------+---------------++----------------+--------------- | | Increase of || | Increase of Year.| Population. | Negro || Population. | Negro | | population. || | population. -----+---------+------+-------+-------++---------+------+-------+------- | | | | Per || |Negro.| | Per | Total. |Negro.|Number.| cent || Total. | [B] |Number.| cent -----+---------+------+-------+-------++---------+------+-------+------- 1704 | -- | 1,500| -- | -- || -- | -- | -- | -- 1741 | -- | 2,000| 500|33.3 || -- | -- | -- | -- 1757 | -- | 3,000| 1,000|50.0 || -- | -- | -- | -- 1790 | 44,906| 5,915| 2,915|97.2 || 4,495| 1,478| -- | -- 1800 | 73,476| 8,626| 2,711|45.9 || 5,740| 1,811| 333|25.5 1810 | 111,431|12,116| 3,490|40.4 || 8,303| 1,853| 42| 2.3 1820 | 140,869|13,100| 984| 8.1 || 11,187| 1,761| 92| 4.9[C] 1830 | 221,743|16,082| 2,982|22.8 || 20,535| 2,007| 246|13.9 1840 | 343,501|18,595| 2,573|15.6 || 47,613| 2,846| 839|41.8 1850 | 557,233|16,131| 2,464|13.2[C]|| 138,882| 4,065| 1,219|42.8 1860 | 895,657|14,927| 1,204| 7.5[C]|| 279,122| 4,999| 934|22.9 1870 |1,058,182|15,755| 828| 5.5 || 419,921| 5,653| 654|13.1 1880 |1,312,203|22,496| 6,741|42.8 || 599,495| 9,153| 3,500|61.9 1890 |1,668,867|26,330| 3,834|17.0 || 838,547|11,307| 2,154|23.5 1900 |2,270,620|42,299| 15,969|60.6 ||1,166,582|18,367| 7,060|62.5 1910 |3,132,532|69,700| 27,403|64.8 ||1,634,351|22,702| 4,335|23.6 -----+---------+------+-------+-------++---------+------+-------+------- [A] Figures 1704-1757 from Du Bois, _Notes_, _etc._, p. 1. [B] Negro not reported separately 1790 to 1850; includes "slaves" and all other "Free Colored" which does not involve serious error in the earlier censuses. Census figures 1790-1910 are from the latest revisions of the Bureau of the Census. Figures for same area, outside of Manhattan and Brooklyn, are estimates of censuses 1790-1890. Figures for 1900 and 1910 are exact. [C] Decrease. To summarize the point, while the Negro population has become a smaller relative part of the total population each decade since 1810, it has shown a decided trend toward a large actual increase.