WEALTHY NEGROES.
A despatch from Savannah to the New York World gives some interesting information about‘ho progress of the negroes of the Southern states. In Georgia alone bast year tho colored people paid taxes on more than 10,000 000 dol worth of property. ; hey likewise own over 700,000 acres of rail eat’te Up to 1800 the neirocs of the same Stats only paid taxes on 5 500 00010 l of property, and owned only about half as much real estate as they to-dav return. In other words, the ex-slaves of Georgia have accumulated as much property within the past five years as they did during the fifteen years following upon the heels of war and their release from bondage. It is estimated that the colored voters of Georgia, taken as a whole, own more than ton acres of land per capita, and more than ICOiol wirtli of property
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1353, 28 September 1886, Page 2
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148WEALTHY NEGROES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1353, 28 September 1886, Page 2
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