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They faced discrimination and limited opportunities
Most were living in the south, where there were half a million free blacks, and three and a half million slaves. There was no large black population in the northern states.
Because no-one wanted them to. The Black Codes limited their ambitions, and sharecropping became the normal system of making a living from agriculture.
Better then in the south
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The problems they faced were that they sucked lots of male genitals
They faced discrimination and limited opportunities
They couldn't have certain jobs or live in certain states.
blacks and whites who supported blacks (mainly)
Laughed at blacks.
Black people still faced widespread discrimination by whites. Eventually the Jim Crow laws were passed which segregated blacks from many parts of society and kept most of them from voting.
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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