The census for 1910 reports 430,449 homes, rural and urban, owned by negroes, and of these 314,340 were free of encumbrance, compared with a total of 327,537 homes in 1900, of which 229,158 were free.

Further discussion of the part of the negro in agriculture will be found in another chapter.] Speaking broadly, the right of the negro to work at any sort of manual or mechanical labor is not questioned in the South.

Negroes and whites work together on the farm, and a negro may rent land almost anywhere.

In thousands of villages and towns one may see negro plumbers, carpenters, and masons working by the side of white men.

A negro shoemaker or blacksmith may get the patronage of whites at his own shop or may share a shop with a white man.