How did they respond to ......slavery?

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Complicated, because you are talking about many different people of a very broad ethnicity, and political persuasions!.
The Quaker communities were always 'anti-slavery', when they immigrated into the colonies!. Many others, who were not Quakers, but agreed with their tenets, (usually 2nd Generation 'American') also freed the slaves that their families had before them in some of the Northern colonies or states (depending on what era)!. This was long before the Civil War!.
After the Civil War, many black slaves had nowhere to go!. The plantations on which they had been slave labor were now gone!. They had no work and no homes, but they were glad to be 'free' (officially)!. The problems were not over by a long shot!. There was underground bigotry in the North and outright in the South!.
[I'll tell you a little personal story]!.!.!.!. I joined the military in the 1950s!. I am from the Pacific NW, went to school with all ethnic groups, and was really not aware of what was going on in the South, being quite young and, now that I look back, naive!.!.!.!. A group of us traveled to basic training in the 'deep south'!. When we embarked from the plane, I first saw, to my horror, bathrooms, and drinking fountains with big signs saying "Blacks only" and "Whites Only"!. When we went off base we were not allowed to sit with anyone labeled 'black' (which included those from Hawaii!] on public buses!. We were shepherded into a day room and given a lecture warning us that even though we were all friends and part of the same US military, we would not be allowed to go to a movie, or sit in the same restaurant off base, as our 'black' friends!. For this reason, most of us remained on base to participate in socializing!
This is just my story, but it may give you a little insight into what 'was' and how it has changed very dramatically!.!.!.!.what do people, as a whole, personally believe!? One really can't say, but bigotry is still around, it rears it's ugly head too often, as yet!.!.!.!.both in the US and world wide!.!.!.!.
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After the emancipation there were so many laws introduced to limit the freedoms of blacks that many probably didn't see the difference!. It was a slow and gradual process that continues right up until this day!. Slavery was abolished, but it has taken many years for true freedom to be realized!.Www@QuestionHome@Com