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During reconstruction, the black codes

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were laws passed by mainly Southern states to keep African Americans in a system of virtual slavery.

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The Black Codes, sometimes called Black Laws, were laws governing the conduct of African Americans (free blacks). The best known of them were passed in 1865 and 1866 by Southern states, after the American Civil War, in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and to compel them to work for low wages.

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