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The Black Codes
The Black Codes were laws passed on the state and local level mainly in the rural Southern states in the United
States to restrict the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans. While some northern states also
passed legislation discriminating against African Americans before the Civil War, the term Black Codes is
most commonly associated with legislation passed by Southern states after the Civil War in an attempt to
control the labor, movements and activities of African Americans.
An Act to Confer Civil Rights on Freedmen, and for other Purposes
Section1. 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, and chooses in action, y
descent or purchase, and may dispose of the same in the same manner and to the same extent that
white persons may: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not be so construed as......

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