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Chapter 12 Notes. Free African Americans in the North and the South. Discrimination in the North Nancy Gardener Prince She was treated with respect in Russia but discriminated in Boston. Elizabeth Alexeivna Empress of Russia & wife of Czar Alexander I. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Chapter 12 Notes
Free African Americans in the North and the South
• Discrimination in the North• Nancy Gardener Prince She was treated with
respect in Russia but discriminated in Boston.
Elizabeth Alexeivna Empress of Russia & wife of Czar Alexander I
•Free African Population1790 59,000.1830 319,000.1860 488,000.
• 1860 Maryland had more free African Americans that any other state.• Thousands became free by running
away.
• Limits on freedomSouth: No right to vote
No right to trial by juryNo right to public schoolNo right to travel freelyNo right to gather together with out at least one white person present
• Limits on freedomNorth: Limits on voting
Prohibited from testifying against whitesSeparation of races
• African Americans owned businesses in the South and a few became rather wealthy.
In 1850 in Charleston South Carolina there were:
122 carpenters87 tailors30 shoemakersmore than a half a dozen innkeepers
• EntrepreneursJames Forten - Owned a sail making
factory in Philadelphia..
• EntrepreneursPaul Cuffe - Owned a fishing fleet of three
ships and a warehouse in Connecticut.
• Free African Americans began to go to schools and attend colleges and Universities.
• Mutual Aid Societies – African Americans provided services for each other.
• Threats to freedomWhite mobs and slave catchers.
• Many free Africans went to Canada.• Some free Africans went to Liberia
Africa established with help by President James Monroe.