How Was Free African Americans Treated Differently

Free Blacks Were Treated Differently Equality has been a problem in American history for many years, especially for African Americans. Even in the past when slaves would earn or become free blacks, they were still treated as less than free whites with fewer rights. The law would get in the way of African Americans having equal rights like those who had light skin. Even after they fought with whites in the Civil War, they were still treated differently. A lot were freed from slavery though because of helping in the war. It's not just someone that is “black,” even when someone was mixed, they did not have the same rights because mixed marriages were not even aloud. Even though free blacks were free, they were still treated unfairly, and overall …show more content…
Black leadership have once established the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Despite the law that forbade, even free blacks, from preaching. It spread from Philadelphia to Charleston, and in other south areas. Because it was against the law, there were many members of the church who were arrested and charged for being a member of that church. The church suffered many brutalities. This is just another reason of how free blacks did not have the same rights as white people at all. If it was a white person going to church they certainly would not be arrested because it was legal for them back then, and it was not for free black even though they were free.
A lot of people in the past did not see them as equal or could not think that free blacks good do the same work and skills as a white person. Even though people didn’t see them this way, they were highly skilled just like anyone else can be. They were highly skilled as artisans, business people, educators, writers, planters, musicians, etc. This shows that free blacks and whites are the same, that they are all people. They could be whatever and do whatever they wanted to if there were equal rights (Independence Hall