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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (145753)	5/15/2001 6:10:15 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

That is the great mitigating factor, the uncertainty of how the emancipated would fit into the total scheme of society. However, many continued to work for wages on the original estates, and some headed West to homestead. Some, with skills, actually set up shop in cities and became tradesmen. At the time of the Civil War, it is estimated that half the black population of cities like Richmond and Baltimore were freedmen, and some of the rest, with a trade, were allowed to work on their own by their masters for a remittance of their earnings. In states like Maryland and Virginia, few farms had more than several dozen slaves, many less. It was in the Deep South, with its vast plantations, that estates contained hundreds of blacks engaged in stoop labor......