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Question: How did the public treat free blacks and slaves during, before,and after the civil war!?
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a lot of the white people treated them badly but there were a few whites that treated them with respect not many they acted like they were still
slaves an couldn't except that they were free!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It really depended where they were!.In the abolitionist north a freed black could be treated like a human been!. This was also the case in many areas of the south!.Poor whites everywhere treated freedman badly as they were in Competition for the same tasks in many cases!.Slaves rarely were treated well, they were after all property, and if you treated your horse kindly, so you would treat your slaves kindly!.If you beat your horse, well so it goes!.The informed and educated public would always have treated slaves and freedman better in general, than those who saw them as a threat!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

in one word- badly

eg!. in the North the blacks were allowed to serve - but only in segregated units (white officers, blacks allowed only up to sergeant rank)

to make things stranger, blacks (free men, freed slaves and slaves) served in the south in integrated units- shoulder to shoulder with whitesWww@QuestionHome@Com