question - How did post-bellum black COMMUNITIES differ from slave and antebellum free black people communities?
ANSWER : Post-bellum black communities differs from slave and antebellum free black people communities in many ways.
Post-bellum
With the 1885 passage of the Thirteen Amendment of the Constitution, which abolished slavery, many slaves celebrated their new found freedom.In the same moment, many slaves were left wondering where to go next, now that they had the right to go to other places and not were they and their families had been forced to work.Some of these slaves decided to stay in the home where they had been working for the prior owners.Others moved to farms of white landowners and they became tenant farmers or sharecroppers.Others were in hope that they could purchase theri own land and start their own farms.
Slave And Antebellum Free Black Communities
In the United States the antebellum period happen before the American Civil War that began in 1861.It is usually describe as the period between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.Some historians might use the term "antebellum" to refer to the entire United States.They might consider it to have began after the American Revolutionary War that ended in 1789.In the antebellum period free blacks were straightforward about the injustice of slavery.Their ability to express themselves depended weather they lived in the North or South.Free Southern blacks proceed to live under the shadow of slavery, unable to assemble or travel, as freely as those in the North.Although their lives were often restrict by many discriminatory laws, free African Americans - especially those in the North - still stay as active participates in american society.Black man enlisted as soldiers fought in the American Revolution and the War of 1812.Some of these soldiers owned business, land, homes, and paid taxes.In some Northern cities, for short periods of times, black property owners voted.A very little number of free blacks owned slaves.The slaves that most free blacks bought were relatives whom they later manumitted.Some free blacks also owned slave holding plantations in Virginia, Louisiana, and South Carolina.African Americans also occupied in accomplishing freedom of others, which was a difficult and dangerous undertaking.Enslaved whites and their white friends planned secret fight approaches and escape routes for runways to make their way to freedom.Though it was never underground or a mechanized means of travel, those hiding places and network routes came to be known as the "undrground railroad."
Post-bellum
With the 1885 passage of the Thirteen Amendment of the Constitution, which abolished slavery, many slaves celebrated their new found freedom.In the same moment, many slaves were left wondering where to go next, now that they had the right to go to other places and not were they and their families had been forced to work.Some of these slaves decided to stay in the home where they had been working for the prior owners.Others moved to farms of white landowners and they became tenant farmers or sharecroppers.Others were in hope that they could purchase theri own land and start their own farms.
Slave And Antebellum Free Black Communities
In the United States the antebellum period happen before the American Civil War that began in 1861.It is usually describe as the period between the War of 1812 and the Civil War.Some historians might use the term "antebellum" to refer to the entire United States.They might consider it to have began after the American Revolutionary War that ended in 1789.In the antebellum period free blacks were straightforward about the injustice of slavery.Their ability to express themselves depended weather they lived in the North or South.Free Southern blacks proceed to live under the shadow of slavery, unable to assemble or travel, as freely as those in the North.Although their lives were often restrict by many discriminatory laws, free African Americans - especially those in the North - still stay as active participates in american society.Black man enlisted as soldiers fought in the American Revolution and the War of 1812.Some of these soldiers owned business, land, homes, and paid taxes.In some Northern cities, for short periods of times, black property owners voted.A very little number of free blacks owned slaves.The slaves that most free blacks bought were relatives whom they later manumitted.Some free blacks also owned slave holding plantations in Virginia, Louisiana, and South Carolina.African Americans also occupied in accomplishing freedom of others, which was a difficult and dangerous undertaking.Enslaved whites and their white friends planned secret fight approaches and escape routes for runways to make their way to freedom.Though it was never underground or a mechanized means of travel, those hiding places and network routes came to be known as the "undrground railroad."