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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.
Enacted in 1865 and 1866, the Black Codes were designed to replace the social controls previously exerted over Black Americans by slavery, which was ended through the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Black Codes were laws enacted by the legislatures of former Confederate States in 1865 and 1866, in response to the passage of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. The laws were intended to restrict the rights and freedoms of slaves who were freed in the wake of the Civil War.
The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).
Black codes and Jim Crow laws were laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of Black voters. After the Civil War ended in 1865, some states passed black codes that severely limited the rights of Black people, many of whom had been enslaved .
When slavery ended in the United States, freedom still eluded African Americans who were contending with the repressive set of laws known as the black codes. Widely enacted throughout the...
After the Civil War, former Confederate states created a system of laws—Black Codes—restricting African Americans’ civil and economic rights. Black Codes punished vagrancy, forced freedmen to sign labor contracts, and blocked African Americans’ right to vote.
In the United States, the term black codes usually refers to statutes designed to regulate and define the status of free blacks. Black codes were found in some antebellum northern states, all the antebellum slave states, and, immediately after the Civil War, in most of the former slave states.
Although often professing to respect the equality and civil rights of the newly emancipated, in reality most of the Black Codes were specifically designed to curtail the economic, political, and social freedom of African Americans and, through a combination of private and public efforts, restore much of the slave system that had existed prior ...
The Black Codes were laws that were introduced in the Southern States restricting the freedom of black people (freedmen) and the right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces such as Southern towns. The Freedom of ex-slaves was restricted in numerous ways including: