Could yall help me? Which statement best characterizes the condition of African Americans in the pre-Civil War South?
Free blacks receive lower pay than slaves.
Blacks in the South lacked individual rights.
Education was encouraged for free blacks.
Slaves were given voting rights.

Blacks in the South lacked individual rights.

Explanation: They judged them for the color of their skin so they lacked their rights. They were being owned by the wealthy white farmers that could care less if they are sick they brought them down to the lowest of the lowest.

Blacks in the South lacked individual rights

Explanation:

African Americans were still slaves during this time. It was during the war that slaves were freed due to the Emancipation Proclamation.

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