How did African Americans face slavery and discrimination in the mid 1800s?

Many African Americans were disregarded for their color, the faced brutal treatment such as lynching and crosses being burned in their front yards. Soon most of the African Americans participated in the great migration to the north. Southerners depended on slaves and now that they had all gained freedom the southern economy was slipping. northerners did not like that the African Americans were fleeing to the north they believed that they were going to steal all of the jobs and leave them nothing. the endless cycle of Discrimination was circling around the heads of the Americans and the African Americans even to this day.