Free blacks in the antebellum period—those years from the formation of the Union until the Civil War—were quite outspoken about the injustice of slavery. Their ability to express themselves, however, was determined by whether they lived in the North or the South. Free Southern blacks continued to live under the shadow of slavery, unable to travel or assemble as freely as those in the North. It was also more difficult for them to organize and sustain churches, schools, or fraternal orders such as the Masons.
Although their lives were circumscribed by numerous discriminatory laws even in the colonial period, freed African Americans, especially in the North, were active participants in American society. Black men enlisted as soldiers and fought in the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Some owned land, homes, businesses, and paid taxes. In some Northern cities, for brief periods of time, black property owners voted. A very small number of free blacks owned slaves. The slaves that most free blacks purchased were relatives whom they later manumitted. A few free blacks also owned slave holding plantations in Louisiana, Virginia, and South Carolina.
Free African American Christians founded their own churches which became the hub of the economic, social, and intellectual lives of blacks in many areas of the fledgling nation. Blacks were also outspoken in print. Freedom's Journal, the first black-owned newspaper
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The number representing the beginning of the Reconstruction is 10, mostly in reference to the Ten Percent Plan.
This was a programme annonced by President Abraham Lincoln before the end of the Civil War, in 1863.
This reconstruction plan would allow a Confederate state to form a new local government and be readmitted to the U.S. Congress if 10% of their citizens agreed to take an oath of loyalty to the Union. These 10% would also receive amnesty.
The Ten Percent Plan also suggested a transition from slavery to freedom for newly-freed black laborers by making them work for one year on Louisiana plantations, being paid $10 a month.
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Harriet Martineau lived during the 1800s and she argued that women on her time were treated as mere objects by both their family and society.
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