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