Black Codes
Laws enacted in the post-Civil War American South that restricted the rights and freedoms of newly freed Black people, functioning as a continuation of antebellum slave codes by maintaining racial control and quasi-slavery conditions through legal means.
Claims that use this term
- Black Codes inverted Alabama’s prison population from white to black in years.
- Black Codes directly continued the slave codes’ function of racial control.
- Confederate amnesty allowed treasonous leaders to reinstate quasi-slavery through Black Codes.
- Black Codes re-emerged while the nation celebrated the Declaration’s centennial