The Black codes outraged northern opinion and apparently were never put into effect in any state.

The capital's restrictive "black codes" were also tightened in response to the incident.

To avoid the social effects of the war, most of the Southern states initially passed black codes.

Southern state governments quickly enacted the restrictive "black codes".

The Black Codes indicated the plans of the southern whites for the former slaves.

Many ex-Confederate states then adopted Black Codes following the war.

Under black codes blacks could not sue, give evidence, be witnesses, received harsher degree of punishment, etc.

Louisiana Black Code of 1806 made the cruel punishment of slaves a crime.

Some southern legislatures passed Black Codes, to restrict free movement of blacks and force them into employment with whites.

This was a tricky problem for the party because they were known for upholding slavery and introducing the black codes.

Southern states passed "Black Codes" to control the movement of freedmen and to try to gain their labor for planters.

Republicans had the goals of extending the suffrage to freedmen and eliminating the Black Codes.

The Illinois Black Code of 1853 extended a complete prohibition against black immigration into the state.

As ideas of the French Revolution spread, a movement against the oppressive Black Code developed.

While a state representative from Greene County in 1886, he pioneered efforts to repeal Ohio's black codes.

Every southern state passes Black Codes that restrict the freedmen, who were emancipated but not yet full citizens.

Blacks in southern Ohio suffered from severe restrictions to their freedom due to the "Black Code" of 1804.

They saw the Black Codes placing African-Americans in a position barely above slavery.

The book also provides clear, simple definitions of terms like "sharecropper," "tenant farmer," and "black codes."

The black codes had their roots in the slave codes that had formerly been in effect.

Both the French and the Spanish used black codes to regulate the use of enslaved Africans in the territory.

These are detailed elements of the black codes of Mississippi and South Carolina:

The "Black Codes" outlawed drumming by slaves.

In some states, the Black Codes were incorporated into, or required by, the state constitution, many of which were rewritten in the 1840s.

The Black Code, enacted in 1685, regulated the trafficking of slaves in the American colonies.