Imagine yourself in an old town. With tons of white people walking around you and you’re black. You can’t go and talk to them because you’re restricted from it. People say you’re free but you’re really not, you still have restrictions even though you’re “free”. Around 1860 this is how black people had to live. The only reason blacks were free a little bit was they fought for the north in the Civil War. Technically blacks were free but, they weren’t that free.
The fact that black’s couldn’t vote until around the 1860’s and 70’s is sad because they had pain and suffering along with the whites trying to build this country. Massachusetts set a good example for the northern states about letting blacks be in judicial cases because they were the first to allow it.
In the economic world black’s had some freedoms. A good amount but not as many as they could. One of the freedoms they had was be able to pay taxes. This isn’t a good thing. All the stuff they couldn’t do is good. For example a black man couldn’t vote. Although they could make money working, but usually a white person didn’t hire a black man.
The black man had the most rules against socializing. He couldn’t marry a white, dine with a white or go to church with a white. So mostly they didn’t associate. Since they couldn’t really talk to each other, it would cause a lot of problems in the town. Because blacks would probably start riots from being so mad.
The black man wasn’t very free but still free. They didn’t have many rights, but still had some. Overall better place than the south.
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