the first freed blacks suffered segregation, persecution by white supremasists and less concideration for jobs.
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The word reached them long before Union Troops arrived to enforce emancipation. They were free by law, but prisoners and slaves at the same moment in time.
Did they re-slave free blacks. Did they free all slaves. force all free blacks to live in cities. send free blacks back to Africa.
in the 1860's there was 1253 blacks in the south
There were a great many free blacks living in the south prior to the Civil War. Most free blacks in American lived in the south. In the 1860 census there were 30 million people in the US. Nine million were in the south, including three million slaves, and another half million free blacks. John Hope Franklin, the eminent black historian, has made the free black population of the south a subject of his excellent writing.
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