Others find the climate too severe, while still others are unable or unwilling to work regularly at the speed demanded.
The overwhelming mass of the negro population in the South, and therefore in the nation, is still rural, though among them, as among the whites, the drift toward the cities is marked.

The chief occupations are agriculture, general jobbing not requiring skilled labor, and domestic service, although there is a scattered representation of negroes in almost every trade, business, and profession.

In 1865 the amount of property held by negroes was small.

A few free negroes were upon the tax-books, and former masters sometimes made gifts of property to favorites among the liberated slaves, but the whole amount was trifling compared with the total number of negroes.

In 1910, in the Southern States, title to 15,691,536 acres of land was held by negroes, and the equity was large.