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Why were there few free blacks living in the South prior to the Civil War?
There were a great many free blacks living in the south prior to the Civil War. Most free blacks in American lived in the south. In the 1860 census there were 30 million people in the US. Nine million were in the south, including three million slaves, and another half million free blacks. John Hope Franklin, the eminent black historian, has made the free black population of the south a subject of his excellent writing.
Much of the north was destroyed during the civil war?
No - most of the SOUTH was
Prior to the civil war which group had the most political power in the south?
The plantation owners
Who were the most important civil war generals?
The most important Civil War generals were General Ulysses S. Grant for the North and General Robert E. Lee for the South.
Discuss the economicsocial conditions of blacks in the South during Reconstruction?
Most African-Americans in the South made their living as sharecroppers and were poor. Reconstruction protected their right to vote and to seek public office.
