Conditions for African Americans in the south.
The South had the big plantations which needed a huge work force. The North had factories which didn't need quite as much unskilled labor.
1.3 million African-Americans left the south.
The African-Americans tried to escape from the South because the South had slave states. They tried to get to the North because those were free states.
Because they were socially segregated from the whites - so the traditonal songs and legends would tend to come down through the generations.
South enslaved because they needed people to pick the cotton and other harvest
Underground railroad
The Freedman's Bureau had the specific mission to help formerly enslaved African Americans transition to new lives. The Freedman's Bureau set up several schools for African Americans.
The southern half of the country kept the African-Americans as slaves. The northern states never engaged in that kind of behavior.
because they thought everyone should be equal.
Freedmen's Bureau
Freedmen's Bureau
Conditions for African Americans in the south.
Slavery devoloped in Georgia because the people in Georgia needed more farmers, so they borrowed enslaved African Americans from South Carolina. Then increased the number of slaves in Georgia.
Free African Americans in the South needed a certificate of freedom to prove their legal status as free individuals. Without this document, they could be at risk of being enslaved or facing legal challenges to their freedom. Certificates of freedom also provided some protection against being mistaken for escaped slaves and being captured and re-enslaved.
The majority of White families in the antebellum South owned enslaved African Americans. This system of slavery was a key foundation of the Southern economy, with enslaved individuals forced to provide labor on plantations and in households.
When people have confederate flags it means that their raciest because when the Union and Confederate went to war for the Civil War, the Confederate which stood for the south believed that African-Americans should be enslaved and they were partial against African-Americans.