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Black Codes: Post-Civil War Laws by Luis Voodoo Alquimia Voodoo is a document available to read on EtoBox.

The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War to limit the rights of freed Black slaves and ensure their availability as cheap labor. The codes reaffirmed the inferior status of Blacks and discriminated between whites and Blacks. They restricted Black movement, occupations, ownership of firearms and other rights while subjecting them to corporal punishment. The Black Codes outraged the North and were repealed during Reconstruction, though segregation and discrimination continued th

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Luis Voodoo Alquimia Voodoo

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