Brief Discussion post in History – 1 pages

Did the post-Revolutionary period reflect changing views about slavery and free African Americans? What were the various political, social, economic and/or cultural factors that may have influenced these new attitudes? Was there an increase or reduction of the freedoms allowed, and the restrictions placed on, urban slaves, southern free blacks, northern slaves, and newly emancipated northern free blacks? Why? Do you think that these changes, if any, were beneficial in any way? How?