The Slave Codes were passed to keep the growing slave population under control.
because they were hungry
One of the activities to pass time involved singing and dancing. People also engaged in certain games as a way to pass time.
In 1760, the southern colonies were governed by royal governors appointed by the British Crown. The legislative bodies in these colonies, such as the House of Burgesses in Virginia and the General Assembly in South Carolina, had some power to create and pass local laws, but ultimately the governors had significant authority and control over colonial affairs.
It was getting more difficult to create new slave-states, so the South were in danger of being out-voted in Congress, which would then pass laws unfavourable to Southern interests.
you had to get 9 of the 13 colonies to approve it
The Declaratory Act
They were passed to replace "slave codes" and to ensure a landless, dependent black labor force in response to the Thirteenth Amendment.
A rising fear of slave revolts
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".
Between 1830 and 1860 life under slavery became even more difficult because the slave codes -- the laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people --became more severe. In existence since the 1700's slave codes aimed to prevent the event white Southerners dreaded most-- the slave rebellion. For this reason slave codes prohibited slaves from assembling in large groups and from leaving their master's property without a written pass. Slave codes also made it a crime to teach enslaved people to read or write. White Southerners feared that a literate slave might lead other African Americans in rebellion. A slave who did not know how to read and write, whites believed, was less likely to rebel.
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 were a way for the southern states to still have "slavery" but without getting in trouble from the union
A rising fear of slave revolts
Maryland was the colony who pass the toleration act in the year 1649.Also Maryland was in the southern colonies.
A rising fear of slave revolts
One of the activities to pass time involved singing and dancing. People also engaged in certain games as a way to pass time.
the 15 admendment
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.