10. What kind of jobs did free blacks in the South have? * Free Blacks in the South About half of all free African Americans lived in the South. Most worked as laborers, craftspeople, or household servants in towns and cities. Many white Southerners viewed free blacks as a dangerous group that had to be controlled so that, in the words of South Carolina slaveholders, they would not create "discontent among our slaves." Free blacks were forbidden to own guns. They could not travel freely from town to town or state to state. Blacks were not allowed to work at certain jobs. Such restrictions led Douglass to conclude, "No colored man is Many free blacks found unskilled jobs really free in a slaveholding state." as draymen, laborers, and portors. Soldiers, artisans and teachers Laborers, craftspeople and servants Skilled jobs in the printing industry City planners and builders

10. What kind of jobs did free blacks in the South have? * Free Blacks in the South About half of all free African Americans lived in the South. Most worked as laborers, craftspeople, or household servants in towns and cities. Many white Southerners viewed free blacks as a dangerous group that had to be controlled so that, in the words of South Carolina slaveholders, they would not create "discontent among our slaves." Free blacks were forbidden to own guns. They could not travel freely from town to town or state to state. Blacks were not allowed to work at certain jobs. Such restrictions led Douglass to conclude, "No colored man is Many free blacks found unskilled jobs really free in a slaveholding state." as draymen, laborers, and portors. Soldiers, artisans and teachers Laborers, craftspeople and servants Skilled jobs in the printing industry City planners and builders