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During the early period of Antebellum the creation of free black communities began to expand laying out the foundation of African Americans future. Only a few thousand of Arican Americans had their freedom. As the years went by the number of blacks being freed expandaned tramendously leaving at 233,000 by the 1820s. In order for them to gain their freedom they either sued for it or purchased their freedom. Slave owners had freed their bondspeople and a few state legislatures abolish slavery. In the South 60 percent and 40 percent in the North free black people lived their during the new republic.