<span>Life difficult for free blacks in </span>Charleston was difficult as many whites resented the free blacks and the "Yankee" northerners that free's them. This led to multiple violent interaction between free blacks and the KKK, and continued long into the 1920's.
They became powerful during the 1865 and 1900s because people and troops needed to get around more to fight off the enemy and people needed to transfer goods like gold ,food,animals, and cloths
