In a paragraph, explain how social and economic conditions for African Americans differed in the Upper South and the Deep South during the early to mid-1800s.

There were other sources besides manumissions (formal acts of emancipation by slaveowners), to be sure, including an increase in runaways and immigrants. Among the immigrants were free blacks fleeing the West Indies (often with their own slaves) during the 1791 slave revolt against the French in Saint-Dominque, which became the independent Republic of Haiti in 1804. In part because of that revolt, another important surge in the Southern free black population occurred when Napoleon Bonaparte, exhausted and in need of cash from France's defeat by the slaves, sold his country's vast Louisiana territory to the Americans under its slave-owning president, Thomas Jefferson, in 1803. With it, the U. S. acquired thousands of "free people of color," many of whom had sprung from sexual unions between French and Spanish colonists and black slaves.

The way the social and economic conditions for African Americans differed in the Upper South and the Deep South during the early to mid-1800s:

As in the 1800s, African American economic infrastructure focused on Southern cotton farming. African Americans have grown cotton under a Wide selection of agreements and organizational arrangements.

In early 1800s, Most of them were workers hired for a short time for particular tasks. Most were wealthy landowners, rent land and a few of their tools and equipment, and paying rent at an end of the planting season with part of their seed.

Southern farm records show that blacks and whites farm workers were compensated good wages and that blacks and whites landowners worked at similar rental prices under similar contracts. Whites, however, were even more probable to own land in particular. A similar trend has been found in Southern production in these years.