How were free people of color treated in the Old South?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Free blacks occupied an increasingly precarious position in the antebellum South, as white
southerners’ fears of free blacks inciting slave revolts rose.
2. As whites strove to convince themselves and northerners that blacks were happy in slavery, they
portrayed free blacks as savages who needed to be reined in.
3. Beginning in the 1830s, all the southern states cracked down on free blacks and people of mixed
ancestry, with laws forcing free people of color to register or have white guardians who were
responsible for their behavior.
4. Free blacks had to carry papers proving their status.
5. In some states, free blacks needed permission to move from one county to another.
6. Licensing laws excluded blacks from several occupations.
7. Authorities often prevented free blacks from holding meetings or forming organizations.
8. Vagrancy and apprenticeship laws forced free people of color into economic dependency barely
distinguishable from slavery.
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