27/33 West Virginia had a Negro population of 17,980 in 1870; 25,886 in 1880; 32,690 in 1890; 43,499 in 1900; and 64,173 in 1910.[25] [Footnote 1: _Atlantic Monthly_, LXIV, p. 242, 386.] [Footnote 2: Thompson, _Reconstruction in Georgia_, p. 69.] [Footnote 3: Williams, _History of the Negro Race_, II, p. 375.] [Footnote 4: Williams, _History of the Negro Race_, II, p. |