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http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-codes

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http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-codes

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnAHdtlp-I

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ2Pz_jqhps

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAUXdd-DAh0

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Many former slaves fought against the passage of the black codes. No one really seemed to care because people still recognized them with no rights. Mississippi and South Carolina required all blacks to have proof of employment each January. The black codes were successful for a while. The laws passed called the black codes were not good for society at all. They restricted blacks the basic rights.

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There were many laws that were passed to ensure former slaves as a labor force. They made the former slaves sign yearly ling labor contracts. If they refused they risked being arrested and fined. Blacks basically had no rights. When they did not sign these people would threaten to kill them and their entire families.

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The Black codes were a way to still make life for black people terrible. The codes were created after the civil war during the reconstruction era. The white people reinstated civil authority by passing a series of laws known as black codes. These laws were made to esnure the former slaves as a labor workforce. There were many ways that the white people made the former slaves lives become a cheap workforce like before.