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There were free people of color in what became the United States long before the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Some key points:

Colonial period (1600s–1776): Free people of African, Indigenous, and mixed ancestry lived in colonies such as Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Some were born free, some purchased their freedom, and others were manumitted by enslavers.
After the American Revolution: The number of free people of color increased, particularly in northern states where gradual abolition laws were enacted.
By 1860 (before the Civil War): There were approximately 488,000 free Black people in the United States—about 11% of the Black population at the time. They owned businesses, farms, churches, schools, and in some cases property, though their legal rights varied greatly by state.

The term “free people of color” was a legal and social classification used in many records. It generally referred to people who were not enslaved but were identified as non-white. Depending on the time and place, records might instead use terms such as “free Negro,” “free mulatto,” “Blackamoor” (more common in earlier English records), or other period-specific descriptions.

The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) did not create free people of color. Instead, it:

Granted birthright citizenship to most people born in the United States.
Required states to provide equal protection of the laws.
Overturned major parts of the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, which had held that people of African descent could not be U.S. citizens.

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Going into 1865, not all people legally classified as “white” in the United States were fully free in the same social, political, or economic sense. But the distinctions matter because there were different categories of unfreedom and subordination operating at the same time.

A few major examples:

Indentured Servitude

Before and even into the 19th century, many Europeans classified as white:

Irish,
English poor,
Germans,
Scots,
and others

came to America as indentured servants.

They could be:

contracted for years of labor,
bought and sold through labor contracts,
punished physically,
and restricted in movement.

But indentured servitude was legally different from hereditary racial chattel slavery because:

it was usually time-limited,
children did not automatically inherit the status,
and servants could theoretically gain legal freedom and citizenship standing afterward.

Debt Peonage & Labor Exploitation

Many poor whites after the Civil War remained trapped in:

debt systems,
company towns,
sharecropping,
convict labor,
and industrial exploitation.

Legally free did not mean economically independent.

Convict Leasing

After 1865, Southern states expanded convict leasing systems affecting:

Black populations disproportionately,
but also poor whites.

People convicted of crimes could effectively be forced into labor under brutal conditions.

Women Under Coverture

White women in many states lacked:

independent legal identity after marriage,
voting rights,
property autonomy,
and contractual freedom.

Under coverture laws, a married woman’s legal status was often absorbed into her husband’s.

Religious and Ethnic Restrictions

Some groups legally considered white still faced discrimination:

Catholics,
Jews,
Mormons,
Southern Europeans,
Eastern Europeans.

“Whiteness” itself evolved historically and was not always equally applied.

Important Distinction

However, historians usually distinguish these conditions from racialized hereditary chattel slavery imposed on enslaved Black populations because that system involved:

permanent inherited status,
racial codification,
slave codes,
inability to legally exit status,
and treatment as property under law.

So the statement “all whites were free” oversimplifies history, but it is also important not to collapse very different legal systems into one category. The United States in 1865 had layered systems of:

class hierarchy,
labor coercion,
racial caste,
gender subordination,
and colonial control operating simultaneously.

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