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Regarding Employment, Free Blacks in the Upper South

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Regarding employment, free blacks in the Upper South


A) were never hired by whites, since they could get free slave labor.
B) faced less competition from immigrants until the 1850s, and therefore could get jobs in industry more easily than blacks in the North.
C) were in skilled trades, like carpenters, bakers, and barbers.
D) could generally only get jobs as barbers within the black community.

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