Negro, Black and African-American Census Reports: 1870

Overview - 1870 Census
Census Bureau

Index of Questions
Census Bureau

Census of Population and Housing
Census Bureau

Volume 1. The statistics of the population of the United States, embracing the tables of race, nationality, sex, selected ages, and occupations. To which are added the statistics of school attendance and illiteracy, of schools, libraries, newspapers, periodicals, churches, pauperism and crime, and of areas, families, and dwellings...
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Volume 2. The vital statistics of the United States, embracing the tables of deaths, births, sex, and age, to which are added the statistics of the blind, the deaf, and dumb, the insane, and the idiotic...
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Volume 3. The statistics of the wealth and industry of the United States, embracing the tables of wealth, taxation and public indebtedness...
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Statistical Atlas of the United States based on the results of the Ninth Census in 1870 with contributions from many eminent men of science and several departments of the government...
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Library of Congress

A compendium of the Ninth Census (June 1, 1870)  Statistics on: race, nationality, illiteracy, newspapers, churches, crime, occupations, disabilities, indebtedness; agriculture, manufactures, mining & fishing.
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The Garfield Report to Congress from the Committee on the Ninth Census, 1870
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Communications Relative to the Ninth Census of the United States, February 1869 
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Statistics of population: Volume I. 
Census Bureau
Hathi Trust
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Vital Statistics of the United States: Volume II. 
Census Bureau

A compendium of the ninth census 
Census Bureau
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Ninth census of the United States, 1870. 
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Ninth census: Census reports compiled from the original returns of the ninth census, June 1, 1870. 
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Statistical Atlas of the United States. 
Library of Congress

Education of the Negro, 1869-1903. Office of Education. 76 pages.
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United States., Cummings, J., & Hill, J. A. (1969). Negro population in the United States, 1790-1915. New York: Kraus Reprint. 844 pages. : illus., maps. Reprint of 1918 edition.
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WorldCat 

United States., & McKenney, N. D. R. (1979). The social and economic status of the Black population in the United States: An historical view, 1790-1978. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Current Population Reports, Special Studies, Series P-23, No. 80. 270 pages.
ERIC (full-text)
WorldCat

Annual compendium of data and statistics on finance, commerce, coinage, public lands, immigration, shipping, the Postal Service, population, railroads, education, agriculture and prices. 

1878 - 1879

This colorized sketch titled, "The Census Taker," was published ca. 1870. (link)

As part of his Statistical Atlas of the United States, Superintendent of the Census Francis Walker produced, in 1874, a map that showed the distribution and density of people across the continental United States. (link)

A Negro camp meeting in the South (link)

American sketches: A Negro congregation at Washington 1876 (link)

City Population, 1870 (link)