Before the Civil War, Free Blacks

question 21

Multiple Choice

Before the Civil War, free blacks

• A) were far more numerous in the North than in the South.
• B) were often the mulatto offspring of white fathers and black mothers.
• C) were often forbidden basic civil rights.
• D) found their greatest friends and sympathizers in poor Irish immigrants.
• E) were disliked in the North as well as the South.

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