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11.1.1 ¡KT RATED M A H It 1C REt TTION
M A N H A T T A N I N 1940?
This illustration gixt-s n panoramit view of Miinhattan Island. It show* the district that would bj under complete Negro rule if the present ten
dencies in population continue.
th< century it jumped up to*about •10,000 aerosa ih« har- ♦ Negroeu to Rule by 1940 • Thus it is certainly not far • gradual emancipation began
By 19.15, at this rate, the fetched that Manhattan ««ill in 1799, and all of the en
Harlem, ««her« it will prob- ! bor in the Borough of Brook-
In thè meantinie, thè total population of the Island be governed by a Negro bor slaved Negroes were freed by
i.tily be cent-red for somejlyn
years. On the east side there' «vliite population of th« island • will be much less than a mil- ough president, represented 1827. The number of slaves
is a large settlement around is dwindling. If it decreased S lion. If the number of Ne 1 by Negro aldermen largely, began to decrease after tw-c
5*!ith street anti smaller ones
by nearly a half million in thè groes r e s i d e nt there has policid by black patrolmen slave insurrections in colonial
ai...11 110th itrt - 1
d ays: one in 1712 and the
t ’ ndoubtedly a large num live years troni 15*20 to 1925, grown to 500,000 by that year, and protected by black tire- other in 1741, both ruthlessly-
men
and
watchmen.
ber of Negro«*s would hu\-e how many «vili he left oli thè colored people will control
suppressed with hangings and
Free N egroes in 1791
t’ ertainl.v Manhattan politically, and by
gone to other boroughs just island by 1940?
burnings of the culprits.
n s the whites ilid had they not many, if thè present trend 1940 their supremacy ««ill be
Are Negroes deserving of
In 1704, Dean’s school, the
Today thè total beyond question. Then only- such a trust? It would seem second educational institution
In <-n welcomed und been able continues.
to timl accommodations. »So, population of Manhattan Bor- rich whites, few in number, so. There were free Negroes for Negroes in the United
while u few thousands have ough m u s t he d o r è to will be able to reside south of on Manhattan Island in 164.1. States, was established; the
forced their way into Bronx. 1,600,000, with thè Negroea 110th street, while the color While slavery was inaugu famous Mother A. M E. Zion
Queens and Richmond, the numbering 200,000, constitut- ed folk ««ill he massed north rated in 1650, their introduc- Church came into being in
of that thoroughfare.
bulk live in Manhattan, with ng one-eighth of the total.
tion was prohibited in 1782,
• Continued on p«ge 7)
THK LIKE OF BERT WILLIAMS No. 17 . . .
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miied him ■•ill loot, him »• ■ innube. o ' «he "family."
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they found lh::t In spite o f his (re n t »< Unr. hi«
hfutlh ■ ■ « lulling uml thnl he p in e d under ureo I
d im e »! lira
Text by BEN D A V I S , JR.
Drawn by A. W . R E N N E C A R B E
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