Laws For Blacks

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Black Codes

• Laws For Blacks

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What Where The Black Codes?

• The black codes where basically laws that only
  applied to blacks. There were many different
  subjects that the codes dealt with like property
  or marriage just like do today. In Mississippi
  the codes prevented blacks from buying or renting
  farmland and required them to sign a yearly labor
  contract with a white employer. The codes also
  allowed the state to send black children to work
  for white employers if their parents couldnt
  support them. Excerpt from the book Into The
  land of freedom.

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Why And When Were Black Codes Created?

• The codes were created during the reconstruction
  era between 1865 and 1877. The codes were created
  because whites couldnt accept that blacks were
  now free and because it was like the blacks
  werent completely free with these codes or laws.

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What States Were The Black Codes In?

• The black codes were in many states that formally
  had slaves. Some of these states were
  Mississippi, Ohio, and Louisiana.

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Mississippis Black Codes

• 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,
• free negro or mulatto to rent or lease any lands
  or tenements except in incorporated cities or
  towns, in which places the corporate authorities
  shall control the same.

• The rest of these slides have the main points of
  the Mississippi black codes.
• This section deals with property.

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Mississippis Black Codes

• All freedmen, free negroes and mulattoes may
  intermarry with each other, in the same manner
  and under the same regulations that are provided
  by law for white persons Provided, that the
  clerk of probate shall keep separate records of
  the same.

• This section has to do with marriage.

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Mississippis Black Codes

• it shall not be lawful for any freedman, free
  negro or mulatto to intermarry with any white
  person nor for any person to intermarry with any
  freedman, free negro or mulatto and any person
  who shall so intermarry shall be deemed guilty of
  felony, and on conviction thereof shall be
  confined in the State penitentiary for life.

• This section also has to do with marriage.

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Mississippis Black Codes

• All contracts for labor made with freedmen, free
  negroes and mulattoes for a longer period than
  one month shall be in writing, and a duplicate,
• if the laborer shall quit the service of the
  employer before the expiration of his term of
  service, without good cause, he shall forfeit his
  wages for that year up to the time of quitting.

• This section has to do with labor.

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The End

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Bibliography

• http//afroamhistory.about.com/library/blmississip
  pi_blackcodes.htm