The Influence Of The Black Codes

1: Black Codes: A body of laws, statutes, and rules enacted by southern states immediately after the Civil War to regain control over the freed slaves, maintain white supremacy, and ensure the continued supply of cheap labor.

In 1865 and 1866 white southerners put in place a series of laws called “Black Codes”. They passed the laws in order to oppress freed slaves and ensure that they would keep their workers and forced them into yearly “Labor Contracts” and if they refused they could be fined or forced into unpaid labor.

The Black codes were designed post Civil War by new southern governments as a way of limiting the freedom and power of freed slaves. The codes differed slightly between southern states but they all were ultimately designed for the same intent. These codes accomplished their objectives by limiting freed slaves ability to use the court and bare arms. The codes denied freed slaves the ability to testify against whites, to serve on juries, and the ability to vote. They also denied freed slaves the right to join in state militias. To add to these insults freed black slaves were required to sign yearly labor contracts. The southern governments believed that the freed slaves would become stagnant and refuse to work. The codes stated that any freed

Black Codes: From 1865-1877 laws on the state and local levels were passed by the southern states to restrict African Americans from having civil rights, known as the Black Codes.

Some northerners believed that the black codes where a backdoor attempt at reestablishing slavery. I do agree, I agree because they wanted slavery they wanted people to work for them and not have to pay them. The black codes were put into place to restrict what blacks did. When blacks gained rights the black codes basically just took them away. White’s would scare them into working for them and the black codes just helped that. They would either pay them really low wages or put them debt. This is just a few reasons why I believe that the black codes were just a backdoor attempt to get slavery back.

"The Black Code of 1685" was an unknown subject to me until tonight. I researched about this subject in order to understand better about it.After reading what was this law about, I felt a strong indignation about the types of discriminative laws that French colonies masters established just in order for them to keep black slaves under control. According to article published by the library of congress website, The Black Code’s sixty articles controlled the life of millions of slaves in France. Through this code, colonies authorities regulate a lot relevant aspects of slaves' lives such as" the death, purchase, and religion of all color slaves that belong to French colonies maintaining them submissive to their masters demands. I feel so

Once the Civil War was over, the Federal Government started a process of Reconstruction. Reconstruction finished the remainders of Confederate patriotism and slavery, making the Freedmen nationals with social equality naturally ensured by three new Constitutional amendments. Even though, during the Reconstruction era “The Black Code” was passed in the Southern states. The Black Codes indicated the plans of the southern whites for the former slaves. The freedmen would have a more substantial number of rights than did free blacks previously the war, yet they would, in any case, have just a constrained arrangement of below average social liberties, no voting rights, and no citizenship. They would not be able to own firearms, serve on a jury in

Black codes is what the North believed to be just like slavery. They were laws put in place that limited the rights of african americans who once lived in the South. It had all occurred after the 13th amendment was established, outlawing slavery in the U.S.. Now that slavery was gone, black codes tried to make it seem as if african americans would only be used for labor. Some codes even required them to sign a year long labor contract. If they decided to refuse, the would be arrested and have to do unpaid work. It allowed plantation owners to exploit their slaves, and restricted them from ever renting land.

the black codes were established to regulate the lives of former slaves. It put laws and stipulations on the conduct and behavior which was idealy to keep black people from changing their sitiuations as being successful or becoming more of a free and independant race. The black codes was used as an attempt to support slavery under the counter. If the black parents of a minor could not take care of their kids. The kids would be removed from the household and they would be subjected for apprenticed for trade. The masters would have to provide food, clothing and supply their educational needs such as to read and write.they were not allowed to mis spend what they earned such as gambling and if caught they could be fined in prison for 10 days.It

These black codes were designed to limit black power in the South, and was a response to the acts of the national government, such as the 13th amendment. For example, many black codes sought to arrest freedmen for inconsequential reasons - such as those seen in Document 1 (Public gatherings, owning a weapon, unemployment, etc). Once they were arrested, the local governments could then place them in ‘penile servitude’, a legal form of slavery that required them to work on the fields as a punishment. Similar servitude is seen in the rise of sharecropping, in which (mainly) freedmen were given land in exchange for a large portion of the harvest (a diagram explaining this process is shown in Document 2). Both of these forms of ‘slavery’ were southern attempts to reinstitute slavery, both in the economical sense, and the racial sense, as well as weakening the collapsing structure that was

The Black Codes was masked slavery. Other than some new, small leniencies, Mississippi succeeded in making laws that that still controlled African Americans. These Sections were created for the South to bend the rules by exploiting children. These laws were aimed at minors under the age of 18 that were orphans or whose parents were unable to financially provide for them. At this point, the child would be placed back in the “care” of their former master or mistress. These codes stated that the best interest of the minor was to be protected, that they were to be fed, clothed, treated humanely; taught to read if under the age of fifteen and to receive medical attention when sick. In return, the minor, or apprentice would be bounded by indenture until the age of eighteen for a female and twenty one for a male. It was also acceptable for the former owner to chastise under what was allowed for punishment by the common law. If the child were to escape, it was permitted to place the child in jail if refused to return. That only discharge from a master/mistress would be possible if the courts believed the apprentice had a good cause to quit. Those are just few examples to begin with. These codes essentially worked to separate the races in all aspects of life from children to adults, such as marriage, which would result in life in prison if wedded to a white person. They also were not allowed to own any type of weapon unless they served in the United States military, and were to be fined and possibly imprisoned to even drinking liquor to a level of intoxication. Over all, these are just a few of the examples that were laws to “freed” men to be kept

They restricted the movement of slaves and regulated slave owners. They implemented the codes to further oppress slaves to prevent escape attempts as well as to possibly lessen the chances of any slaves congregating in large numbers to plan revolts.

From Reconstruction through the end of the 1920s, there were multiple encounters of people from all different types of races that have dramatically changed the face of the United States. Old immigrates, White Anglo Saxton Protestants, were the only people who were thought of as true Americans and not outsiders at the time. The 13th amendment abolished the majority of slavery and African American hoped to be finally freed after years of bondage. However, this is far from the end of their issues and there are many more racial barriers to be crossed from not only African Americans, but also for others coming into the country.

While life was progressively getting better for newly freed African Americans many whites established black codes in an attempt to keep them from learning. They feared African Americans getting educated and wanted to stop it. Even though it was passed that African Americans were allowed to vote in the 15th Amendment many polling places wouldn’t allow it. African Americans faced tremendous backlash.

     Imagine yourself wrongly convicted of a crime. You spent years in jail awaiting your release date. It finally comes, and when they let you out, they slap handcuffs around your wrists and tell you every single action you do. In a nutshell, that’s how the Black Codes worked. The southerners wanted control over the blacks after the Civil War, and states created their own Black Codes.