No More Peck O' Corn

5.       What is the difference between how southern and northern blacks were treated?
 The difference between how the Northern and Southern black were treated, for starters the very few blacks lived in the north. Because, blacks were "free" for the northern states have abolished slavery after the American resolution. When they are free you can't legally do anything to them, but as for the south if you own them you can punish them however you please.