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What are black slave codes?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

"black codes" is the laws passed in the South just after the civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American worker.

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Laws passed by states in response to the growing fear of slave resistance were called?

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What were the laws to control African Americans after slavery?

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What black slave led the black codes revolt in 1831?

Nat Turener


What is the difference beween slave codes and black codes?

Slave codes were laws that governed the behavior and treatment of enslaved people, while black codes were laws that restricted the rights and freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War. Slave codes were used in the antebellum South to maintain control over enslaved individuals, while black codes were used to limit the social and political progress of African Americans in the post-Civil War era.


How long did black codes exist?

Congress did not pass the "Black codes" these codes were pass by the states and they were not the same in every state, they were codes to keep slave in there place like thing you would tell your children not to do because if you broke one of the codes you was suggest to get a whipping. Whipping a slave consisted of anywhere from 50 to 500 hundred lashes with a bull whip, the breaking of some "Black Codes", could end in you being hung or burned at the stake. White America was afraid of slave revolt's so they invented the "Black Codes".


What laws were passed to define and limits a slave's place in society?

Slave Codes.


Why did the southern government pass black codes?

They were passed to replace "slave codes" and to ensure a landless, dependent black labor force in response to the Thirteenth Amendment.


A set of laws that regulated slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people?

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What law prohibited enslave African from learning to read and write?

slave codes. so they can not escape slavery


What were laws pertaining to slavery called?

The laws pertaining to slavery were called slave codes or black codes. These were a set of laws that defined the legal status and rights of enslaved individuals, as well as the responsibilities and limitations of slave owners. These laws varied across different regions and time periods in history.


When did the slave code change?

The slave codes changed in 1865 when the 13th amendment was ratified. Slave codes were laws that restricted African Americans behaviors due to the fear of rebellion.


Why did the southern colonies pass slave codes?

The Slave Codes were passed to keep the growing slave population under control.