Why Did the North Begin to Lose Interest in Blacks

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Essay

Why did the North begin to lose interest in blacks and the South by the 1870s?

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Definitions:

Chesapeake Tobacco Planters

Landowners and farmers in the Chesapeake Bay region who cultivated tobacco as a cash crop during the colonial and early national periods of American history.

Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

Refers to the region and period relating to the Chesapeake Bay in the 1600s marked by the establishment of English colonial societies based on tobacco farming and indentured servitude.

Artisans

Skilled manual workers who craft goods or products with their hands, often resulting in unique, functional art or functional items.

Separatists

Separatists are individuals or groups who seek a form of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from larger groups.