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This represents the Vagrancy laws; Unemployed Black people without permanent residence could be arrested, fined, and forced into unpaid labor for a private employer to work off their fine.

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This represents the Vagrancy laws; Unemployed Black people without permanent residence could be arrested, fined, and forced into unpaid labor for a private employer to work off their fine.

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Black codes were passed in the Southern states to limit African American rights and freedom. Furthermore, Southerners wanted them to remain a cheap workforce. The conditions under which many worked were now similar to slavery. The Northerners were appalled by the black codes.

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Black codes were the laws that Southerners passed to control labor and behavior of freed African Americans. Here you can see different examples how Africans were treated below everyone else during the labor they do.

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Blacks were not freedmen anymore as the Black codes prevented them from enjoying freedom

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The Mississippi Black Code refers to a series of laws enacted in 1865 in the aftermath of the Civil War, which sought to maintain a racial hierarchy and limit the freedoms of recently emancipated African Americans

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Echoes of Reconstruction: Misunderstanding About the “Black Codes” - Emerging Civil War

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Emerging Civil War is pleased to welcome back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog A misconception I run into when I discuss Reconstruction is that the Black Codes were passed because of the corruption and mismanagement of the governments elected by new Black electors after the Civil War ended. White voters put the Black […]

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Limited what jobs blacks can hold and limited their ability to leave a job once hired

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Black codes were passed in the Southern states to limit African American rights and freedom. Furthermore, Southerners wanted them to remain a cheap workforce. The conditions under which many worked were now similar to slavery. The Northerners were appalled by the black codes.

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The Black Codes are laws that essentially kept slavery but paid them. African Americans were required to work for extremely cheap and could be arrested if they refused to do so.

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Black Codes were designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished after the Civil war.

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Black codes were passed in southern states to restrict black people's rights to own property, buy and lease land, conduct business etc.

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Black codes are law that as passed after the civil war it was mainly towards the mobility of African Americans.

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the black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force

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Black codes was in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters and restricting them from their rights.

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Black codes were designed to restrict the freedom of African Americans and forced them to work for low wages.

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Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves. They could not make decisions their rights to make them were taken by white citizens.

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Black codes were racially segregationist and discriminatory U.S state laws that limit the freedom of Black Americans but not of white Americans. Black people who lived in states where slavery had been abolished or who lived in a slave state but were not enslaved.

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Black codes were racially segregationist and discriminatory U.S state laws that limit the freedom of Black Americans but not of white Americans. Black people who lived in states where slavery had been abolished or who lived in a slave state but were not enslaved.

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the black community was forced into labor again after the war that ended slavery for little amounts of money and they where heavily mistreated.