Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1882 — Colored Population of the Country. [ARTICLE]

Colored Population of the Country.

In 1860 the colored population of the United States, not including the Indian Territory, which was omitted from the census tables, was 4,441,730. In 1870 the total was given by the census reports at 4,886,387, or, omitting the Indian Territory, 4,880,009. Tnis showed an increase of 438,279, or only 9.8 per cent. Serious doubts have been expressed as to the completeness and accuracy of the census of 1870, and it is altogether likely that the negro population of that period is somewhat understated in the reports. According to the revised tables for 1880, the colored population, not including the Indian Territory, was then 6,680,793, an increase over 1870 of l)700,784, or 35 per cent. The total population of the country for the same period showed an increase of something over 29 per cent. The colored population for the various decades from 1800, with the actual increase, and the per centage of increase during the decade, appears as follows: Increase Decade. Population. Increase, per cent ; 1800 901,436 18)0 1,377,810 476,374 63 1820 1,771,629 393,819 21 1830 2,828,642 657,013 31 1840 2,873,758 645,116 28 1850 4,638,762 765,004 25 1860 4,441,730 802,968 22 1870 4,830,009 438,279 9 8 1880.' 6,580,793 1,700,784 85 If the census of 1870 was even approximately correct, the colored population has not only shown a larger actual increase during the last decade than in auy other ten years of its history, but lias increased by a larger percentage than any other time since 1810. —Detroit Post and Tribune.