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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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    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.

  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 ...

  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. Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia

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    Black people were still elected to local offices throughout the 1880s in local areas with large black populations, but their voting was suppressed for state and national elections. States passed laws to make voter registration and electoral rules more restrictive, with the result that political participation by most black people and many poor ...

  7. Stormy stage play weaves fascinating tale of free Black women ...

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    The play follows a shattering 24-hour period that leaves their world forever changed. Stormy stage play weaves fascinating tale of free Black women in 1800s New Orleans Skip to main content

  8. Reconstruction era - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Johnson's racist view of Reconstruction did not include the involvement of blacks in government, and he refused to heed Northern concerns when Southern state legislatures implemented Black Codes that set the status of the freedmen much lower than that of white people.

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