(PHILADELPHIA BLACKS.) Statistics of the Colored People of Philadelphia, Taken by Benjamin C. Bacon and published by order of the Board of Education of "The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery." 16 pages. 8vo, disbound.

(PHILADELPHIA BLACKS.) Statistics of the Colored People of Philadelphia, Taken by Benjamin C. Bacon and published by order of the Board of Education of "The Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery." 16 pages. 8vo, disbound. Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Chapman, 1856 E400/600 FIRST EDITION of the third, most detailed study of the Philadelphia colored commu-nity; written by a Black Philadelphian. Library Company of Philadelphia's Negro History, 1553-1903 states: "It is amazing that successive sociological studies of the Negro community should have been made so early. We know of none earlier" (referring to 1838 version-see previous lot). Bacon emphasizes literacy figures and schools. These works were used by W. E B. Du Bois in his monumental study, The Philadelphia Negro (1899). Schomburg Collection, Sc. Rare. 370. 974- P; Blockson 10101; LCP, 160. [SEE ILLUSTRATION]