HTST 465 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cotton Gin
9 Oct 2016
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Free black population ( third group of people) 1810: 100 thousands living in the south who were not enslaved. 1810 to the civil war; population doubles doubling every 20 years. Disendents of people who have always been free. Some are sold off from the ships and become free. Making it illegal to free slaves without sending them out of the state. Several thousand acres of land and hundres of slaves. Very old family , they"ve been free for a long time. Having him around was very valuable case he was good at fixing cotton gins. Legally free blacks didn"t operate lie free people. Constant need to prove ones status that other free people didn"t have to do. They had to register with the government to say they were free. They weren"t allowed to own a printing press, gun, couldn"t vote. Even in the antebellum period ; slave people could more with their people.
