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Mississippi Black Code, 1865. Many southern governments enacted legislation that reestablished antebellum power relationships. South Carolina and Mississippi passed laws known as Black Codes to regulate black behavior and impose social and economic control.
Mississippi’s Codes, passed by the state legislature, recognized certain rights for former slaves. However, accompanying restrictions led to severe limitations on the rights of freedmen, while also ensuring that former slaves would continue to be exploited for cheap labor in the state.
Describe the various ways that freedom for freed slaves is compromised under the black codes of Mississippi. How is life under the black codes different from slavery? Would the 13th Amendment help to limit the powers of the state to pass black codes?
To that end, in late 1865, Mississippi and South Carolina enacted the first black codes. Mississippi’s law required Black people to have written evidence of employment for the coming...
Mississippi Black Codes (1865) – “An Act to Confer Civil Rights on Freedmen, and for other Purposes”:
Black Codes were southern state laws that harshly restricted the rights of African Americans in 1865–66. These laws represented the former Confederate states’ first official response to slave emancipation after rejoining the Union.
Mississippi’s “Black Codes” (1865) An Act to Confer Civil Rights on Freedmen, and for other Purposes (abridged) Section 1. All freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all the courts of law and equity of this State, and may acquire personal property,
Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Mississippi that all freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in all the courts of law and equity of this state, and may acquire personal property and choses in action [property that can be sold or assigned], by descent or purchase and may dispose of the ...
Mississippi Black Codes (1865). In Laws of Mississippi, 1865, pp. 82 ff. [The Mississippi legislature passed the Black Codes right after the Civil War ended in an attempt to formalize a racial hierarchy in which whites could restrict the freedoms of black laborers.] 1. CIVIL RIGHTS OF FREEDMEN IN MISSISSIPPI.
The Mississippi Black Codes attempt to codify expectations of freedpeople around topics such as intermarriage and labor laws.