Some people seem to differ in their attitudes toward risk or their aptitude to run a business or in how they handle their economic constraints. A possible reason for this is their ethnicity or race. Ethnic and racial backgrounds might contribute to cultural and emotional reasons that affect risk-taking and business skills. Ethnicity and race may bring a whole set of constraints that affects self-employment. One example of this is slavery, even after slavery, there were severe establishment constraints on the development of black self-employment. Jim Crow laws limited the size black-owned businesses, and thus the amount of revenue going to that community. These laws existed in the former Confederate states, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri from
