It will be interesting to analyze these figures further. The following
table classifies negro wage-earners by occupation and by sex, giving for
each sex the percentage engaged in each group of occupations:
_Male._ _Female._
Professions 1.2 0.9
Agriculture 63.4 44.0
Trade and transportation 6.8 0.2
Manufactures 7.0 2.8
Personal service 21.6 52.1
These figures are also illustrated by diagram No. 3, the area of which
represents all negro wage-earners. The two rectangles into which it is
divided represent the males and females; each of these is sub-divided
into rectangles representing the number in each group of occupations. Of
the male negro wage-earners, more than three-fifths were farmers and a
little less than one-fourth were servants. The two classes jointly
accounted for nearly 85 per cent. of all.
Of the females, considerably less than one-half were farmers and more
than one-half were servants—the two classes together accounting for 95
per cent. of all. This large proportion of female negro farmers was
doubtless made up in the main of women and female children employed in
the cotton fields.