By the time the Black Codes were established. Many northerners saw the Black Codes as a covert way to reestablish slavery. Several members of the Freedmen's Bureau spoke out, calling the laws invalid. However, the North had grown weary of Reconstruction. Thoughts had turned to industrialization and making money. Thus, southern states were able to continue to discriminate against blacks with the codes without fear of retribution.
Evidence that the South sought to keep freedmen in an economically dependent and legally inferior status
The Northerners saw the Black Codes as attempts to restore slavery.
The black codes denied rights by allowing local officials to arrest and fine unemployed African Americans and then make them work for white employers to pay off their fines. Other black codes banned African Americans from owning or renting farms. One black code allowed whites to take orphaned African American children as "unpaid apprentices". To freed men and women and many Northerners, the black codes reestablished slavery in disguise.
black codes, in U.S. history, series of statutes passed by the ex-Confederate states, 1865-66, dealing with the status of the newly freed slaves. They varied greatly from state to state as to their harshness and restrictiveness. Although the codes granted certain basic civil rights to blacks (the right to marry, to own personal property, and to sue in court), they also provided for the segregation of public facilities and placed severe restrictions on the freedman's status as a free laborer, his right to own real estate, and his right to testify in court. Although some Northern states had black codes before the Civil War, this did not prevent many northerners from interpreting the codes as an attempt by the South to reenslave blacks. The Freedmen's Bureau prevented enforcement of the codes, which were later repealed by the radical Republican state governments.
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The Black Codes limited the freedoms of African-Americans, and that wasn't fair. The Black Codes pretty much segregated the African Americans from the Whites.
there were some laws that prohibit the freed slaves to do many things . for example to have a right to vote
black codes
By the time the Black Codes were established. Many northerners saw the Black Codes as a covert way to reestablish slavery. Several members of the Freedmen's Bureau spoke out, calling the laws invalid. However, the North had grown weary of Reconstruction. Thoughts had turned to industrialization and making money. Thus, southern states were able to continue to discriminate against blacks with the codes without fear of retribution.
The black codes denied rights by allowing local officials to arrest and fine unemployed African Americans and then make them work for white employers to pay off their fines. Other black codes banned African Americans from owning or renting farms. One black code allowed whites to take orphaned African American children as "unpaid apprentices". To freed men and women and many Northerners, the black codes reestablished slavery in disguise.
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Many many abolitionists, free black people from the north, many pastors and northerners living in the south
black codes, in U.S. history, series of statutes passed by the ex-Confederate states, 1865-66, dealing with the status of the newly freed slaves. They varied greatly from state to state as to their harshness and restrictiveness. Although the codes granted certain basic civil rights to blacks (the right to marry, to own personal property, and to sue in court), they also provided for the segregation of public facilities and placed severe restrictions on the freedman's status as a free laborer, his right to own real estate, and his right to testify in court. Although some Northern states had black codes before the Civil War, this did not prevent many northerners from interpreting the codes as an attempt by the South to reenslave blacks. The Freedmen's Bureau prevented enforcement of the codes, which were later repealed by the radical Republican state governments.
Many Northerners were for the proclamation that ended slavery. However, there were Northerners who felt like Southerners and opposed it.
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About 1/5 of all northerners
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many northerners learned about slavery by personal contact with slaves.