The Black Codes were passed to limit the freedoms of freed slaves. African Americans in Mississippi had to have written proof of employment. Anyone without such proof could be put to work on a plantation. African Americans were forbidden to meet in unsupervised groups or carry guns.
the black codes were a way for the southern states to still have "slavery" but without getting in trouble from the union
By the ex-confederate states in the south.
Black codes were laws passed in the southern united states. These laws limited the rights of African Americans to work, move, and to have general activities.
The Black Codes were laws passed on the state and local level mainly in the rural Southern states in the United States to restrict the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans. While some northern states also passed legislation discriminating against African Americans before the Civil War, the term Black Codes is most commonly associated with legislation passed by Southern states after the Civil War in an attempt to control the labor, movements and activities of African Americans.
With indifference it wasn't until later that legislature started to pass laws about the treatment of African Americans.
President Andrew Jackson's Reconstruction granted freedom and political rights to the slaves and gave them opportunities to acquire land. But the State Legislatures in the Southern States almost immediately established so-called "black codes" in their States, severely limiting these rights and practically preventing blacks to find work as paid labourers.
Many new black churches were established.
There were about 90% of black Americans in the 1910's that lived in the Southern states.
the black codes were a way for the southern states to still have "slavery" but without getting in trouble from the union
because republicans had just finished freeing the slaves as soon as the war was over and the southern states had been readmitted, southern democrats immediately set to work to pass laws limiting the freedom of black people.
Ten Southern states implemented literacy tests and poll taxes to disenfranchise black citizens. These were done effectively through the passage of the Black Codes.
They were trying to prevent black southern men from being able to vote.
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Black codes is a law passed by Southern States that limited the freedom of former slaves.