How Free Were African-Americans In The North?

How free really were African-Americans in the North? In the North African-Americans were free but treated as if they weren't. They didn't have as good a life as whites. Leading up to and during the civil war, blacks were either slaves or unequal free men. In the South they were most likely slaves and in the North they were free but they only had certain rights instead of all they should have. While African-Americans in the North were legally free, they were not equal because of social, political, and economical reasons.
Social conditions were a bad condition for the Blacks because they were legally free but were not allowed to socialize with Whites. An example of social conditions are that Blacks were not allowed to go to church with Whites. This shows that they aren't allowed to do something like praying together and it makes them easy targets for terror attacks (LC-USZ62-30794 149). Blacks were also not allowed to dine with White men either. This is a huge form of neglect which limits their social freedom as explained by the quote "but he shall not be free to dine and drink at our board" meaning that Blacks cannot dine at the same table as White men (Mackay 145). Blacks were also not allowed to marry White women. This is taking an important part of life out of their freedom just because of the color of
11 out of 16 states did not allow Blacks to vote or they had restrictions on the voting (Litwack 143). This is very bad because they don't get to have the same rights when it comes to choosing who will lead the country. Only Massachusetts allowed Blacks to serve on jury duty (Litwack 143). Jury duty is a big part of fair society and if they can't do that then they do not have a fair life. Blacks were not allowed to represent Whites in a legislature (Litwack 143). This is another limit to their political rights because they do not get to make executive