Footnote-8 

1: Pike, "The Prostrate State", pp. 3, 4.
2: "Spectator", LXVI, p. 113.
3: Frederick Douglass pointed out this difficulty prior to the Civil War. See John Lobb's "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass", p. 250.
4: Labor was then cheap in the South because of its abundance and the foreign laborer had not then been tried.
5: During these years Senator Morgan of Alabama was endeavoring to arouse the people of the country so as to make this a matter of national concern.
6: "Public Opinion", XVIII, p. 371.
7: "Ibid.", XVIII, p. 371.
8: Simmons, "Men of Mark", p. 817.
9: "Public Opinion", XVIII, pp. 370-371.
10: Because of these conditions the last fifty years has been considered by some writers as a "dark age," for the South.
11: The Negroes are now said to be worth more than a billion dollars. Most of this property is in the hands of southern Negroes.
12: "American Law Review", XL, pp. 29, 52, 205, 227, 354, 381, 547, 590, 695, 758, 865, 905.
13: No. 300. Original, October Term, 1910.
14: Hershaw, "Peonage", pp. 10-11.
15: These facts are well brought out by Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones' recent report on Negro Education.
16: This is based on reports published annually in the "Chicago Tribune".
17: This is the boast of southern men of this type when speaking to their constituents or in Congress.
18: "Report", October Term, 1917.
19: This danger has been often referred to when the Negroes were first emancipated. See "Spectator", LXVI, p. 113.
20: Compare the Negro population of Northern States as given in the census of 1800 with the same in 1900.
21: Hart, "Southern South", pp. 171, 172.
22: This is based on the experience of the writer and others whom he has interviewed.
23: In his report on Negro education Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones has shown this to be an actual fact.
24: Negroes applying for positions in the South have the situation set before them so as to know what to expect.
25: The "American Journal of Political Economy", XXV, p. 1040.
26: The "Journal of Social Science", XI, p. 16.
27: "American Economic Review", IV, pp. 281-292.
28: Ford edition of "Jefferson's Writings", X, p. 231.

A Century of Negro Migration, March 31, 1918

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