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  2. Black Codes (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).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 ...

  3. Slave codes - Wikipedia

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    The slave codes were laws relating to slavery and enslaved people, specifically regarding the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas. Most slave codes were concerned with the rights and duties of free people in regards to enslaved people.

  4. List of landmark African-American legislation - Wikipedia

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    Slave Codes (1685-1865) - Series of laws limiting legal rights of slaves. Included establishment of slave patrols, limitations on freedom of movement, anti-literacy regulation, restrictions on commerce, and punishments for other infractions. South Carolina slave codes (1685) - modeled on slave codes in Barbados and Jamaica. Virginia Slave Codes ...

  5. Slavery in the District of Columbia - Wikipedia

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    The Black Code of the District of Columbia, in Force September 1st 1848. New York: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society . As reported in The North Star of May 12, 1848, Senator John P. Hale wished to introduce a bill, making "any city, town, or corporate place" in the District liable for damages done by mobs.

  6. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    However, the third Congress regulated against it in the Slave Trade Act of 1794, which prohibited American shipbuilding and outfitting for the trade. Subsequent acts in 1800 and 1803 sought to discourage the trade by banning American investment in the trade, and American employment on ships in the trade, as well as prohibiting importation into ...

  7. African Americans in South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Black codes in South Carolina were a series of laws meant to prevent African Americans of civil liberties. Black codes applied only to "persons of color," defined as including anyone with more than one eighth, or 12.5% "Negro blood." [44] Below are some examples of Black codes passed by the South Carolina General Assembly.

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  9. Barbados Slave Code - Wikipedia

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    The Barbados Slave Code served as the basis for the slave codes adopted in several other British American colonies, including Jamaica, Carolina (1696), Georgia, and Antigua. In other colonies where the codes are not an exact copy, such as Virginia and Maryland, the influence of the Barbados Slave Code can be traced throughout various provisions.