Excerpt from The Northward Movement of the Colored Population: A Statistical StudyIn the eleventh census, 1890, there is a very interesting opening essay, Progress of the Nation, by Robert P. Porter, Henry Gannett, and William C. Hunt, which speaks of the southward movement of the race, but says that its extent and importance have been exaggerated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.