In the 1800s, many white Southerners followed the Southern Code
A
and as a result free African Americans in the North were treated worse than enslaved African Americans in the South.B
because they owned large plantations where they cultivated cotton, which was a major cash crop in the South.C
because enslaved workers did work that was not considered “ladylike” or “gentlemanly.”D
and as a result most of them did not have enslaved workers and disagreed with the practice of slavery.