https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6 Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2019-02-08 14:51:01 UTC 2025-12-03 10:19:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329226688 2019-02-08 15:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329226688 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329227491 2019-02-08 15:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329227491 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329228123 2019-02-08 15:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329228123 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329228566 2019-02-08 15:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329228566 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329229002 2019-02-08 15:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329229002 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329234762 For free African Americans, the South was never a comfortable place. In a slave society their presence was always suspect, and slaveholders went to great lengths to limit their numbers.]]> 2019-02-08 15:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329234762 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329235092 Those Northern cities closest to the South experienced the largest growth.]]> 2019-02-08 15:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329235092 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329235534 For African Americans, finding employment in Northern cities was no easy task. Their job possibilities were limited by discriminatory labor practices demanded by European immigrants competing with blacks for skilled jobs.]]> 2019-02-08 15:17:27 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329235534 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329236483 Southern white men were expected to strive for the independence that land owning brought. If they could not all be planters, at the very least they were expected to be small farmers.]]> 2019-02-08 15:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329236483 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329237681 In the North, however, African Americans were generally denied skilled jobs. Southern migrants were particularly disadvantaged since they were more likely than Northern-born blacks to have job skills.]]> 2019-02-08 15:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329237681 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329237757 In the North, however, African Americans were generally denied skilled jobs. Southern migrants were particularly disadvantaged since they were more likely than Northern-born blacks to have job skills.]]> 2019-02-08 15:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329237757 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329238114 African Americans found it almost impossible to obtain licenses as hack drivers or pushcart operators, denying them important opportunities to become small businessmen. ]]> 2019-02-08 15:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329238114 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329238410 The few exceptions were "one or two employed as printers, one blacksmith and one shoemaker."

]]> 2019-02-08 15:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329238410 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329238526 Migration from their Southern homes was not easy, but as the antebellum period wore on, more and more African Americans made the move.

]]> 2019-02-08 15:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329238526 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329303378 Their travel between the Virginia and New York homes was so frequent that various family members might be found living together in either location at any given time.]]> 2019-02-08 17:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329303378 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329303604 The rampant discrimination against black men in the Northern labor markets made it unlikely that a family could be supported on one salary.]]> 2019-02-08 17:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329303604 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329303660 The domestic work open to African-American women was often steady, unlike the seasonal nature of many of the laboring jobs available to men. ]]> 2019-02-08 17:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329303660 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329304158 Black women were often very influential within the household.]]> 2019-02-08 17:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329304158 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329304709 Studies of the black family have long noted the increased independence and authority women exercised within the household because of their crucial role in the family economy.]]> 2019-02-08 17:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329304709 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329304911 One attractive feature of domestic work in the homes of others, or of "taking in" washing or sewing at one's own home, was that such an arrangement allowed for the care of children at the workplace.]]> 2019-02-08 17:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329304911 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329305672 For free African Americans, the South was never a comfortable place. In a slave society their presence was always suspect, and slaveholders went to great lengths to limit their numbers.]]> 2019-02-08 17:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329305672 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329305748 States like North Carolina prohibited free African Americans from entering their territory.]]> 2019-02-08 17:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329305748 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329306192 In several states, including Maryland, free blacks convicted on the most minor charges were sold into slavery.]]> 2019-02-08 17:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329306192 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329306396  It is hardly surprising that many free men and women seriously considered leaving the South. Although some would cast their lot with those advocating immigration to Africa and the West Indies, the overwhelming majority of voluntary migrants moved into established African-American communities in the North.

]]> 2019-02-08 17:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329306396 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329306875 In 1859, South Carolina's legislature established the Committee on the Colored Population, which seriously considered enslaving all the state's free African Americans.]]> 2019-02-08 17:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329306875 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329307608 The Southern colonies who practiced the system of plantation farming were the Maryland Colony, Virginia Colony, North Carolina Colony, South Carolina Colony and the Georgia Colony]]> 2019-02-08 17:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329307608 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329307715 The economy of the plantations was based on a massive labor force and the ability to produce large quantities of cash crops]]> 2019-02-08 17:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329307715 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329307967 The reason that the system of plantation farming sprang up in the South was due to the climate of the regions. ]]> 2019-02-08 17:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329307967 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329308556 Mild winters and hot, humid summers made it possible to grow crops throughout the year which was ideally suited for plantation farming

]]> 2019-02-08 17:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329308556 latia_dorsey https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329308722 Plantation Farming - Colonial America]]> 2019-02-08 17:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/latia_dorsey/9pyh9x8clmi6/wish/329308722