[90]
The figures given by the census are as follows:
1850, mulattoes formed 11.2 per cent of the total Negro population.
1860, mulattoes formed 13.2 per cent of the total Negro population.
1870, mulattoes formed 12 per cent of the total Negro population.
1890, mulattoes formed 15.2 per cent of the total Negro population.
1910, mulattoes formed 20.9 per cent of the total Negro population.
Or in actual numbers:
1850, 405,751 mulattoes.
1860, 588,352 mulattoes.
1870, 585,601 mulattoes.
1890, 1,132,060 mulattoes.
1910, 2,050,686 mulattoes.
[91] Cf. "The Spanish Jurist Solorzaris," quoted in Helps: _Spanish
Conquest_, IV, 381.
[92] Hurd: _Law of Freedom and Bondage_.
[93] "Obi (Obeah, Obiah, or Obia) is the adjective; Obe or Obi, the noun.
It is of African origin, probably connected with Egyptian Ob, Aub, or
Obron, meaning 'serpent.' Moses forbids Israelites ever to consult the
demon Ob, i.e., 'Charmer, Wizard.' The Witch of Endor is called Oub or Ob.
Oubaois is the name of the Baselisk or Royal Serpent, emblem of the Sun,
and, according to Horus Appollo, 'the Ancient Deity of Africa.'"--Edwards:
_West Indies_, ed. 1819, II. 106-119. Cf. Johnston: _Negro in the New
World_, pp. 65-66; _also Atlanta University Publications_, No. 8, pp. 5-6.
[94] _Boston Transcript_, March 24, 1906.
[95] Bassett: _North Carolina_, pp. 73-76.
[96] Cf. Wilson: _The Black Phalanx_.
[97] Wilson: _The Black Phalanx_, p. 108.
[98] _American Historical Review_, Vol. XV.
[99] Report to President Johnson.
[100] _Reconstruction and the Constitution._
[101] Brewster: _Sketches_, etc.
[102] McPherson: _Reconstruction_, p. 52.
[103] Report to the President, 1865.
[104] _American Historical Review_, Vol. XV, No. 4.
[105] _Occasional Papers_, American Negro Academy, No. 6.
[106] _Occasional Papers_, American Negro Academy, No. 6.
[107] _Jackson (Miss.) Clarion_, April 24, 1873.
[108] Allen: _Governor Chamberlain's Administration_, p. 82.
[109] Reconstruction Constitutions, practically unaltered, were kept in
Florida, 1868-85, seventeen years; Virginia, 1870-1902, thirty-two years;
South Carolina, 1868-95, twenty-seven years; Mississippi, 1868-90,
twenty-two years.