to limit the economic and physical freedom of former slaves
the southern state legislature pssed black codes because the southerners hated the slaves and still wantes slavery
The policies of new Southern state governments that angered Congress were the black codes.
Passing black codes.
Black Codes
Virginia
Black Codes existed in many southern states, the main 13 southern states included South Carolina, Oklahoma, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Alabama , Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, & Kentucky. Although black codes were different from state to state they all restricted black people. Black people (former slaves) were free however they couldn't vote or interracial marry.
It restricted their economic rights and prevented them from holding office, voting, serving on a jury or receiving a public education.
One by one, southern states met President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction demands and were restored to the Union. The first order of business was in these new white-run governments was to enact BLACK CODES, laws that restricted freedmen's rights
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".
black codes
The Thirteenth amendment. All former Confederate state legislatures had to adopt this amendment to return fully into the Union.
and southern state 1865 and 1866