Project Gutenberg 2020-10-16 Public domain in the USA. 149 Gannett, Henry 1846 1914 06042728 Occupations of the Negroes Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund. Occasional papers, no. 6 Produced by Richard Tonsing, hekula03, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Occupations of the Negroes" by Henry Gannett is a statistical study published in 1895, focusing on the employment patterns and economic involvement of African Americans following the Civil War. The book is a scientific publication primarily utilizing data from the 1890 census to analyze the labor force status of Negroes in the United States, showcasing their engagement in various gainful occupations. In this work, Gannett presents a detailed examination of the workforce demographics, revealing that a significant portion of African Americans were engaged in agriculture and personal services, while having minimal involvement in professions and trades. The study highlights that by 1890, over half of the Negro wage-earners were farmers, with a noteworthy proportion of women also participating in agricultural work. Gannett’s analysis also discusses discrepancies in occupation based on geography, along with the ownership of farms and houses among Negroes, illustrating both progress and ongoing challenges faced by the African American community in terms of economic empowerment and social mobility. Overall, the book provides a comprehensive statistical portrait of the working lives of African Americans in the late 19th century. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 69.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en African Americans -- Employment E151 Text Category: History - American Category: Sociology Category: Economics 88300 2025-06-25T07:29:42.545035 text/html 65731 2024-10-18T07:14:56 text/html 1598365 2025-06-25T07:29:46.420029 application/epub+zip 1597599 2025-06-25T07:29:43.601022 application/epub+zip 82929 2025-06-25T07:29:43.076034 application/epub+zip 1635478 2025-06-25T07:29:48.360018 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1631980 2025-06-25T07:29:45.830019 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 119246 2022-09-28T16:19:01.780170 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 60848 2025-06-25T07:29:42.181056 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 40900 2024-10-18T07:14:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16378 2025-06-25T07:29:48.496008 application/rdf+xml 13922 2025-06-25T07:29:43.189039 image/jpeg 2183 2025-06-25T07:29:43.131051 image/jpeg 1584379 2025-06-25T07:29:42.596061 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia