Brief Black
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What were the black codes(brief description)?
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laws passed in Southern states after the Civil War that restricted travel and other activities of freed slaves.
The laws varied, and some provided for limited rights. But generally, they deprived blacks of key civil rights. Many barred blacks from juries and from testifying against white people. Some required that blacks have proof of employment.
Whites claimed the laws were needed to deal with a population of freed slaves who had little knowledge of life outside slavery. Northerners felt the laws were proof that Southern whites intended to keep former slaves in a second-class status forever.
(These are not the same as Jim Crow laws, which came some years later to enforce segregation of the races.)
