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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 South Carolina slave-code served as the model for many other colonies in North America. In 1755, the colony of Georgia adopted the South Carolina slave code. [14] Virginia's slave codes were made in parallel to those in Barbados, with individual laws starting in 1667 and a comprehensive slave-code passed in 1705. [15]

  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. 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.

  6. Slavery in the colonial history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    During the late 17th century and early 18th century, harsh new slave codes limited the rights of African slaves and cut off their avenues to freedom. The first full-scale slave code in British North America was South Carolina's (1696), which was modeled on the colonial Barbados slave code of 1661. It was updated and expanded regularly ...

  7. Black History/White Lies: The 10 biggest myths about slavery

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    According to a study by Black historian Carter G. Woodson, 3,777 free Black people owned 12,907 slaves in 1830 — about one-half of 1% of the two million people enslaved in America. And because ...

  8. African Americans in South Carolina - Wikipedia

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    The expansion of slavery throughout the state led to the full maturity of the slave society in South Carolina, and by 1860, 45.8 percent of white families in the state owned slaves, giving the state one of the highest percentages of slaveholders in the country. Denmark Vesey Monument, Hampton Park, Charleston SC

  9. Schools say dress codes promote discipline. But many Black ...

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    Schools with higher percentages of Black and Hispanic students are more likely to enforce strict dress codes, and schools in the South are twice as likely to enforce strict dress codes as those in ...