the black codes were a way for the southern states to still have "slavery" but without getting in trouble from the union
to tell if intruder were their
With indifference it wasn't until later that legislature started to pass laws about the treatment of African Americans.
They were passed to replace "slave codes" and to ensure a landless, dependent black labor force in response to the Thirteenth Amendment.
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".
It restricted their economic rights and prevented them from holding office, voting, serving on a jury or receiving a public education.
It was a response to the black codes and the neo-slavery system created by unrepentant southern legislatures.
the 15 admendment
With indifference it wasn't until later that legislature started to pass laws about the treatment of African Americans.
They were passed to replace "slave codes" and to ensure a landless, dependent black labor force in response to the Thirteenth Amendment.
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".
Southern states passed Black Codes, which were laws specifically designed to restrict the rights and freedom of African Americans. These codes aimed to regulate the behavior and movement of former slaves and control their labor opportunities.
The black codes
They made African Americans pass a literacy test..
early 1866
It restricted their economic rights and prevented them from holding office, voting, serving on a jury or receiving a public education.
It was a response to the black codes and the neo-slavery system created by unrepentant southern legislatures.
Black Codes were laws designed to restrict the rights of newly freed African Americans in the Southern states after the Civil War. These laws imposed harsh restrictions on the economic, political, and social freedoms of African Americans, effectively keeping them in conditions similar to slavery. Examples include laws prohibiting voting, owning property, and traveling without a pass.
The Slave Codes were passed to keep the growing slave population under control.