Of this number 8,749,427 lived in the Southern States, and 1,078,336 in the Northern.

That is to say, 89 per cent of the negroes lived in the three divisions classed as Southern, 10.5 per cent in the four divisions classed as Northern and 0.5 per cent in the two Western divisions.

Since 1790 the center of negro population has been moving toward the Southwest and has now reached northeast Alabama.

Migration to the North and West has been considerable since emancipation.

In 1910 there were 415,533 negroes born in the South but living in the North, and, owing to this migration, the percentage of increase of negro population outside the South has been larger than the average.