In the Antebellum South,free Blacks Constituted a Kind of "Third

In the antebellum South,free blacks constituted a kind of "third race" who

A) were admired and envied by poorer whites.
B) were celebrated by Northerners as examples of black success.
C) were treated as equals to whites under the law but were socially stigmatized.
D) were legally segregated into their own schools and communities.
E) were legally barred from some occupations and resented by defenders of slavery.