As well the secret society was not as polite to African-Americans,and also the secret society was called "Ku Klux Klan".
blacks
Free Blacks (2%)
whites and blacks were segregated harshly.
Booker t washington
Society of the Friends of the Blacks was created in 1788.
Society of the Friends of the Blacks ended in 1793.
No. But there were some free blacks in the southern states.
Southern blacks
There is no such thing. All southerners use the same idioms! They become "southern Black" idioms, when blacks move north and forget their culture.
To use the terminology of the times, meaning the years immediately after it's beginnings, the Klan's goal was to terrorize freed Blacks, prevent them from voting, and burn their churches. And to form lynching crews. The Klan also targeted any "White sympathizers", who tried to help Freed Blacks. Klan activity was based in the South. Later on, the Klan still existed, and the term Afro-Americans is best used to describe their main targets. The activities of the modern day Klan, up to about the early 1960's, was in line with past activities. Afro-American churches were burned, burning crosses were placed on the properties owned by Southern Afro-Americans.
The Revolution created an opportunity for blacks to begin making demands of white society. Blacks petitioned Congress and state legislatures to abolish slavery and give blacks equal rights. However, the structure of American society at the time made it near impossible for blacks to be allowed freedom and equality (power of the cotton plantation, the slave trade, the politics of unity between northern and southern elites, established culture of race prejudice in the colonies, etc.)
It meant freedom