How were the situations of free African Americans in the North and the South similar?

Even if, as Berlin illustrates in a companion table, 100 percent of the African Americans living in the North were free in 1860 (compared to only 6.2 percent in the South), it still is a puzzle to figure out why the majority lived below the Mason-Dixon Line.

Explanation:

its c not d   tell me if that´s correct

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