black codes and lynching

mississippi vagrant act

Required all freedmen to carry papers proving they had means of employment. If they had no proof, they could be arrested, fined, or even re-enslaved and leased out to their former enslaver

louisiana farm labor act

workers must show complete obedience, failure to do so results in a fine

georgia act on public places

Black people must obey the laws of segregation. Failure to do so is a misdemeanor, and punished w/ 1 hour whipping.

mississippi penal law

Free black people offending others will be fined and possibly imprisoned

mississippi apprentice law

Civil officers must report back to the court any freed black children whose parents can’t care for them. The court will place these kids with another owner, with preference given to their former owner

convict leasing

black prisoners being leased out to private businesses and individuals to use as a source of labor

lynching

the act of killing someone, such as by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial; to execute illegally; to hang

Dominique Morgan

made $2.25 for a day’s work

black codes

• deprived freedmen of the right to vote, hold office, serve on juries, testify in courts against white people

• gave white southerners power over freedmen