Hey can anyone pls write a paragraph about African American life in the North versus the South

The extension of slavery to new territories had been a subject of national political controversy since the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in the area now known as the Midwest. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 began a policy of admitting an equal number of slave and free states into the Union. But the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 (both grounded in the doctrine of popular sovereignty), along with the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision of 1857, opened all the territories to slavery.

February 1848 is when it was added. if that's what you were asking