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They had the rich class which had more than 20 slaves. The rich class acted like the Europeans and had elegant houses.
Small farmer class was the middle class.
The lower class had no slaves and made little to know money, and rented their land. They didn't own slaves. All of the classes thought that they were better then the slaves

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In the South there were three different classes the rich ,poor and middle class. The rich people had lots of slaves middle class had one or two slaves.

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Southern Whites had 3 main classes, the richest owned hundreds of slaves and owned their land but the poorest may have not even owned any land or slaves.

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lots of free slaves. They could still get jobs. The whited thought that they were encouraging slaves to rebel

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Free slaves faced more discrimination. Enslaved had no rights. Most of the free African Americans were born from free African Americans. Many continued to live in the south.

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Two kinds of African Americans free and slaves, free had very hard time and they had little rights and got taken a lot to be a slave.

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Southern law did not recognize marriage or families, they can sell a husband a life to buyers. Children were taken form their parents and sold.

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Slavery in the south has no rights. They were bound to slaves code. They could not prosecute.They could not charge anyone. They have no protection and equality.

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The slaves were African Americans that did not have any rights and it took a very long time to learn how to read or to write and they did not have the right to testify in court or own a firearm.