Black Codes in the South

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf historical legal system
gptkbp:abolished federal intervention
gptkbp:challenge gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1866
gptkb:Reconstruction_Acts
gptkb:14th_Amendment
gptkbp:enforcedBy local law enforcement
gptkbp:historicalSignificance limited African American civil rights
precursor to segregation laws
prompted federal civil rights legislation
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Black Codes in the South
gptkbp:implementedAfter gptkb:American_Civil_War
gptkbp:implementedIn gptkb:Southern_United_States
gptkb:Southern_state_governments
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:antebellum_slave_codes
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Alabama
gptkb:Georgia
gptkb:Louisiana
gptkb:Mississippi
gptkb:South_Carolina
gptkbp:penalty unemployment
loitering
vagrancy
gptkbp:period 1865-1867
gptkbp:purpose ensure labor supply for plantations
restrict freedom of African Americans
gptkbp:relatedGroup freed African Americans
gptkbp:replacedBy gptkb:Jim_Crow_laws
gptkbp:requires labor contracts
gptkbp:restrictedRights travel
voting
owning property
serving on juries
testifying against whites
employment choices
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Presidential_Reconstruction
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5