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Hardship did not end with freedom. There were (1) regional variation in both the status and (2) of free blacks during that period. Free blacks in the north were excluded from most public schools, (3) from interstate travel, barred from voting in many states, and often attacked by (4) whites. Finding a(n) (5) job in the North was extremely difficult. Jobs (6) to free blacks were limited (7) domestic service and farming. (8) , the jobs that were available to free blacks were found (9) in urban cities, such as Boston, Philadelphia, and New York. (10) a time when less than 20 percent of all Americans (11) in urban areas, 60 percent of Northern free blacks lived in major urban cities.
In the Deep South less than 2 percent of the black population was classified as free in 1860. Often (12) as Creoles (克里奥尔人) or mulattoes (黑白混血儿), a significant (13) of free blacks in the Deep South were wealthy, fight-skinned aristocrats. Some Creoles (14) dark-skinned free blacks, and many despised the negative stigma that was (15) with being black. The free black elite in cities such as Mobile, Alabama (16) themselves on their fine clothing and "respectable" air. Whites in the Deep South (17) the few free blacks mainly as day laborers and domestic servants. (18) free blacks worked as carpenters, mechanics, and tailors. The large personal (19) of a few free blacks in the Deep South (20) them to own slaves. Many bought slaves in an effort to protect family members, but others sought to expand personal fortunes.

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