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Title: Economic Progress in the Postbellum South? African-American Incomes in the Mississippi Delta, 1880-1910

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: The extent of economic gains by African Americans in the decades after slavery is in dispute. Using a newly constructed data set, compiled from the manuscript census schedules and other sources, we find that African Americans in the Mississippi Delta experienced substantial income gains between 1880 and 1910. These gains can be attributed partly to African Americans moving into higher paying occupations-in particular, moving from being farm laborers to being farm operators-and partly to an increase in the incomes received from given occupations, (C) 2001 Academic Press.

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Authors: Irwin, James R.; O'Brien, Anthony P.

Conference Name: Conference on One Kind of Freedom reconsidered - African-American Economic Life in the Segregation Era

Publisher Location: Bethlehem, PA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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