Black Codes (United States)
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black-codes-united-states-183-14884911
title:
Black Codes (United States)
text:
The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans. In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact, participate equally with the whites, in the exercise of civil and political rights." Although Black Codes existed before the Civil War an
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description:
Discriminatory state and local laws passed after the Civil War
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)
date created:
2004-11-17T02:28:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T02:41:25Z
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