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Black Codes (United States)

  • Hook1... that Mississippi prohibited black and white Americans from assembling "on terms of equality"?
  • Comment: There have been a lot of submissions from around this time period recently, and it would be fine to delay this hook if people feel they ought to be spaced out more. Alternatives:
  • Hook2 ... that Kentucky's 1866 black code outlawed "rambling without a job" and "keeping a disorderly house" as examples of vagrancy?
  • Hook3 ... that according to an observer from the Freedmen's Bureau, Louisiana recycled its old laws in 1865, "with the word 'slave' expunged, and 'Negro' substituted"?

Created/expanded by Groupuscule (talk). Self nominated at 17:44, 9 July 2013 (UTC).