American History Honors Black Codes

Vagrancy Law

made it a crime to be unemployed or w/0 permanent residence

Apprentice Laws

Allowed white ppl to “hire out” Black orphans and other dependent.

Property Ownership

Limited the type of property black ppl could own

Firearms

Prohibited Formerly enslaved ppl from carrying firearms

Employment restrictions

Prohibited black ppl from working in certain business and or skilled trade

Testimony

prohibited formerly enslaved ppl from testifying in court except in cases involving other black ppl

Marriage

Black ppl cannot marry outside there race

Contract laws

Penalized anyone who tried to leave a job before working there contract

Piglaws

Penalized black people harshly for stealing farm animals

Black Men were elected to…?

local state and federal offices across the south

First African Americans senators representing Mississippi

Hiram Roads and Blanche k Bruce

How many African Americans served in state legislatures

600

African Americans became

Sharecroppers, Tenant Farmers, Skilled trade