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were descendants of slaves freed around the early 1800s.

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Slave owners created diffuculties for free African Americans because?

In the south there were no "free African Americans ". All African Americans in the southern states were slaves. Therefore, slaves owners didn't create problems for free African Americans because they never met a free slaves.


What did some free African Americans fight for?

freedom for other african americans


What African country was created by free African Americans?

Liberia


What did African Americans seek free land in the Midwest?

a waiting period before land ownership. competition by whites. discrimination by whites


Were all African-Americans slaves?

Not all African Americans were slaves. Many were free African Americans while others were so light in their skin color so they could pass as a white. Some free African Americans owned slaves themselves.


What did African Americans seeking free land in the Midwest face?

a waiting period before land ownership. competition by whites. discrimination by whites


African Americans seeking free in the land in the Midwest faced what?

a waiting period before land ownership. competition by whites. discrimination by whites


What rights did free African-Americans have?

property


Do slaves and free African Americans mingle?

no


What has the author Ira Berlin written?

Ira Berlin has written: 'Slaves who were free' 'Records of southern plantations from emancipation to the great migration' -- subject(s): Sources, History, Archives, Plantation owners, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), African Americans, Plantation life 'Many thousands gone' -- subject(s): African Americans, History, Slavery, Social conditions 'Slaves without masters; the free Negro in the antebellum South' -- subject(s): African Americans, History 'The making of African America' -- subject(s): OverDrive, History, Nonfiction 'Remembering Slavery' 'The making of African America' -- subject(s): Slave trade, Internal Migration, Emigration and immigration, African Americans, Migrations, History


When did the free African Americans begin fighting for the Patriots in the Revolutionary War?

they started fighting right after the battle of Saratoga


Why were African Americans free in 1865?

African Americans were free in 1865 due to the new chapter in the American history that was opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865 and was implemented. It abolished slavery in the United States, and with the end of the war, four million African Americans were free.