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Compare And Contrast The Poor White And Free African Americans

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Both poor whites and free African Americans encountered many difficulties in the South. To start, around 30 to 50 percent of all southern whites were landless. Poor whites were given limited opportunities due to slaves working their jobs. Because the poor white people had limited opportunities, many had to search for work such as working as a farm laborer at harvest time and being a tenant farmer. Many of the poor white men and women worked beside black slaves in the fields. The poor whites set up the clandestine trade, where they gave slaves liquor, helped slaves escape, and some whites were executed for planning slave revolts. In the South, there were about 250,000 free blacks. The Black Codes, or laws concerning free black people, gave free

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