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How were both enslaved persons and free African Americans to act around white people?

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Even if they were free they were still held at nearly the same standards in most places, they had to be polite, they had to stay quiet, submissive , never to harm or be rude to any white man or women along with many other things. Both slave and freeĀ 
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