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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 insurance in the United States - Wikipedia

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   C. R. Bricken sold life insurance policies on both enslaved black people and free white people, and listed a number of notable slave traders (including Seth Woodroof, Robert Lumpkin, Silas Omohundro, Hector Davis, Solomon Davis, and R. H. Dickinson) as references to whom "losses had been paid" (Richmond Enquirer, November 6, 1855)

4. Black Laws of 1804 and 1807 - Wikipedia

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   According to Nelson Evans, on Black Friday, January 21, 1830, in Portsmouth, all 80 black people were deported. [6] The Portsmouth expulsions led to the establishment of a black community in Huston Hollow with the Underground Railroad. In 1846, the Randolph Freedpeople were blocked from settling on land granted to them despite having posted bonds.

5. List of landmark African-American legislation - Wikipedia

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   Noted for the devastating loss of life and property among African-Americans in New York City. Black Codes (1865–66) - series of laws passed by Southern state legislatures restricting the political franchise and economic opportunity of free blacks , with heavy legal penalties for vagrancy and restrictive employment contracts .

6. Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia

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   The growth of their thriving middle class was slowed. In North Carolina and other Southern states, black people suffered from being made invisible in the political system: "[W]ithin a decade of disfranchisement, the white supremacy campaign had erased the image of the black middle class from the minds of white North Carolinians."

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8. Slave codes - Wikipedia

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   Most slave codes were concerned with the rights and duties of free people in regards to enslaved people. Slave codes left a great deal unsaid, with much of the actual practice of slavery being a matter of traditions rather than formal law. The primary colonial powers all had slightly different slave codes.

9. Some Black workers say if they stopped code switching at work ...

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   That’s compared to around 35% of Hispanic workers, and 12% of white workers. And around 40% of Black workers say that if they stopped code switching at work, it would negatively impact their ...