Were free blacks really free in the North

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 During the 1700-1800's there was a problem with the blacks and the whites.  The problems was that blacks had no rights, although some states in the North let blacks vote, marry whites, file law suits, and sit on juries, but blacks rarely filed law suits because whites majority didn't allow it.  Although blacks had these rights there were many more rights they did not have, I think that free blacks were not free enough for many reasons. 

In some states in the North blacks could vote but women had not rights in the political field.  Anything blacks cold do they had to be segregated from whites.   Blacks could not pay taxes, or perform taxes.  Also they could not marry white’s child, nurse whites, drink, and blacks could not dine with whites.  To me laws like these are silly the only reason for this is because of skin color, it just does not seem right.  Although in the North blacks began to get few rights but it’s better than nothing.  Blacks started to have the right to speak in public.  This was a great step in the right directions for the black. 

Although blacks were beginning to have few political rights, their prosperity rights had barely started.  In the North there were very few churches for blacks.  But if blacks had a church it was their favorite place to be.  The reason for this was they had no boundaries.  They could speak out and do almost anything they could not do in public.  The only thing that was bad about these churches were that they had to be segregated no whites could go to this church.  As well as being able to go to an all black church blacks could also own land and a house.                    

            Lastly, black’s social freedom, this was the worst out of all three of these topics.  A black person could not go anywhere a white person went.  Also blacks could not associate with a white if this were to happen you could get arrested.  The rules and laws about blacks and whites were ridicules.  I mean talk about favoritism. 

            With all of this is mind I think that blacks were not free enough.  Although some states in the north blacks were free they had many more restrictions whites did not have.  How would you like to be a black person at this time and not be able to talk to a white person just because of your skin color?  I do not this was right at all.  So in all I think that blacks were not free enough during the 1700-1800’s.