1. Legal Status of Slaves and Freed African Americans 1.Defined by law 2.Affects by law 3.Southern rights 4.Northern rights 5.Support by non slaveholding whites 6.Price of slaves

2. Slaves Defined by Law Slaves were defined as property, not human beings. Slave holders have complete control and authority over their slaves

3. Affect on their lives Slaves were not allowed to have a wife, children, country, or home. He may not own or posses anything

4. Free African Americans in South Worked as laborers, Craftsmen, household servants Couldn’t own guns Couldn’t travel freely Only work certain jobs

5. Free Africans in the North Treated better but not equal as whites No right to vote Experienced discrimination Denied entry to schools Forced to low paying jobs Denied freedom of religion Created National Council of colored people to protest treatment

6. Support by Non-slaveholding Whites Cotton Gin created and Economy based on Cotton as a cash crop All white southerners understood that their economy was based cotton and Cotton farmers depended on slaves labor

7. Slave Prices As prices went up slaves were more valuable This encouraged slaveholders to take better care of slaves Slave holders less willing to end slavery because they were so valuable Ending slavery meant financial end of the south