African American life before Civil War

Please answer the following question in a well-developed essay of 4-6 double-spaced typed pages in length with one inch margins, in black 12-point Times New Roman font on white paper (footnotes, unlike the main text, are to be in 10-point font), and page numbers in the upper right hand corner: What was life like for black people in America before the Civil War? In this essay, you should consider life both in the North and the South. Each essay must contain a thesis statement, a structure.