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The Black Codes: Laws Aimed at Re-Enslaving Freed Black People After the Civil War
TLDR The black codes were a series of laws enacted after the Civil War in an attempt to re-enslave freed black people and maintain white power and control. These laws created a system of debt and forced labor for black people, restricted their freedoms, and ultimately paved the way for the rise of Jim Crow laws and systemic racism.
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The black codes were a series of laws enacted after the Civil War by Southern white people, particularly plantation owners, in an attempt to re-enslave freed black people.
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After the Civil War, Vice President Andrew Johnson took over and favored a forgiving plan for reentry of southern states into the Union, but the white Southerners were not happy with the Freedman's Bureau and the new rules, leading them to establish new state constitutions that excluded black children from free public education.
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The black codes were a set of laws created in the Southern states after the Civil War that aimed to recreate the slave economy and maintain white power and control, despite the abolition of slavery.
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The black codes were a set of laws created in the Southern states after the Civil War that aimed to recreate the slave economy and maintain white power and control, despite the abolition of slavery.
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The black codes aimed to force black people into work agreements that benefited white people, while also offering limited and often unenforced basic rights and recognition of marriages, and restricting their freedoms through labor contracts and debt peonage.
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The black codes created a cycle of debt and forced labor for black people, where they were trapped in labor contracts and could be arrested for not having a job, leading to their debts being transferred to white plantation owners and being forced to work until the debt was paid off.
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The black codes created a system where black people could be arrested and forced into labor until their debts were paid off, and the loophole in the 13th Amendment allowed Southern legislatures to arrest black people en masse.
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The black codes created a system where black people could be arrested and forced into labor until their debts were paid off, and the loophole in the 13th Amendment allowed Southern legislatures to arrest black people en masse.
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After the Civil War, the Southern states wrote new all-black laws, but Congress, particularly the Radical Republicans, were not amused and brought down reconstruction upon the South.
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The post-Civil War Reconstruction period in the South saw promising advancements for black Americans, with the introduction of constitutional amendments and the election of black officials, but ultimately, the North lost interest and abandoned the project, leaving black southerners vulnerable to the rise of Jim Crow laws and systemic racism.
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