The African-American Census
 
 
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Below is an original page taken from volume three of the African-American Census, 1838. The page has been separated into three sections by color. Each section links to a table in another window, which presents the information contained in the section transcribed. Hyperlinks within the tables connect to maps that show the location of streets within the Philadelphia.

Table 1 Table 2 Table 3

Committee to Visit the Colored People. Census facts Collected by Benjamin C. Bacon And Charles Gardner. (Philadelphia, 1838)
Vol. 3, Census B.C.B. no. 1.
From The Changing Heart of the City: Building and Rebuilding Western 'Wash West'
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Places in Time website (http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/washw/communities.html)

 

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