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Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.

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Laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters

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Laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters

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The black code was a way for the southerns to maintain their way of life that they knew before the civil war.

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The black codes are about restrictive laws that limited the freedom of African Americans, this image correlates with the question because it shows the African Americans working while the whites just stand still holding weaponry.

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The Black Codes were discriminatory laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 after the Civil War. Though they granted some limited rights, their main purpose was to restrict the freedom of African Americans and force them into a labor economy similar to slavery. After the Civil War, many former Confederate states passed Black Codes to restrict the freedom and labor of African Americans.

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the Black Codes that were passed in the South after the Civil War

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The Black Codes were a set of restrictive and discriminatory laws enacted by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, immediately following the American Civil War. My image represents how harsh the code was on African Americans.

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part of a larger pattern of Democrats trying to maintain political dominance and suppress the freedmen, newly emancipated African-Americans.

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part of a larger pattern of Democrats trying to maintain political dominance and suppress the freedmen, newly emancipated African-Americans.

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part of a larger pattern of Democrats trying to maintain political dominance and suppress the freedmen, newly emancipated African-Americans.

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The Black Codes, also called the Black Laws, were racially segregationist and discriminatory U.S. state laws that limited the freedom of Black Americans but not of White Americans and would limit anything people with the color of skin could do>

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While no single photograph captures the entirety of the Black Codes, the political cartoon The "Worse Than Slavery" Picture by Thomas Nast is one of the most powerful and well-known images that represents them. Published in Harper's Weekly on October 24, 1874, the image depicts the oppressive conditions faced by African Americans in the post-Civil War South, including the systems established by the Black Codes. This shows the restriction and how they controlled there legal rights and economic opportunities of formerly enslaved people

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Find an image that represents the Black Codes that were passed in the South after the Civil War.

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According to History.com, "Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War." Specifically in the late 1865 both Mississippi and South Carolina enacted the first black codes. It the website it says that, "Mississippi’s law required Black people to have written evidence of employment for the coming year each January; if they left before the end of the contract, they would be forced to forfeit earlier wages and were subject to arrest."

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Black codes kept restrictive laws to keep black people down.

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Restricted laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery.

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Mississippi was the first state to pass Black Codes.

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Mississippi was the first state to pass Black Codes.

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My image is of stingy white males looking down on a man of color doing something that wasn't allowed back then; what he was doing was buying a 'white males ticket' from a stand. The black codes restricted African Americans right to own property, conduct business, by and lease land, and move freely through public spaces. What the man in this photo was doing was moving freely through a majority white space.

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The black codes only allowed for African Americans to be employed under White people.

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Black codes were the discriminatory laws passed throughout the past-Civil-War South which severely restricted African Americans' lives, prohibiting such activities as traveling without permits, carrying weapons, serving on juries, testifying against whites, and marrying whites.

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It was racially segregationist and discriminatory U.S. state laws that limited the freedom of African Americans but not of White Americans. This image represents African Americans working hard while the white American is just standing there observing.

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black codes restricted people's rights to own property, conduct business buy and lease land and move freely through public spaces.

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The Black Codes were restrictive laws that were made to try and keep control on African Americans, it was also to help ensure their availability as cheap labor after slavery. The image I chose shows how the code was used on African Americans.

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Mississippi 1865, black code felony again marriage . …it shall not be lawful for any freedman, free negro, or mulatto to intermarry with any white person; nor for any white person to intermarry with any freedman, free negro, or mulatto; and any person who shall so intermarry, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof shall be confined in the State penitentiary for life….

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Black Codes created after the Civil War were similar to Slave Codes. The Black Codes’ goal was to maintain white control.