My website was created to illustrate the Black Codes and their effects, not only on the blacks but on the whites and how it related to the North and South. The true purpose of the Black Codes was to keep the black man down socially, economically, and politically. Northerners claimed the Black Codes to be slavery in disguise.
Following the Civil War, the state governments in the south (white governments) did everything possible to regain economic and political power from the freshly freed slaves. In 1865 and 1866, they enacted the Black Codes that were designed to decrease the rights of the black people regardless of the fact that they were now free. |
![]() This picture shows the inspection of black slaves working on cotton fields before the Black Codes after the Civil War.
http://www.chicora.org/heritage-not-hate.html |
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This picture shows a laundry business in the future. This was during the Jim Crow era and was one of many places that segregated the blacks from the whites. This was not during the Black Codes, but the Black Codes may have sparked the Jim Crow Era.
http://belthorne2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/izzy-mctighe-lara-tucker-black-codes.html
http://belthorne2011.blogspot.com/2011/05/izzy-mctighe-lara-tucker-black-codes.html