US History Discussion Board

Read Chapter 15 and the information included in the  Mississippi Black Code  (recommend that you view the article in Firefox). Once all reading is complete, respond to the following item(s):

During Reconstruction, Black Codes were enacted in several former states in the Confederacy. A Republican-controlled Congress would later react to suppress these codes.

· What ultimately were these codes designed to do?

· Precisely how did the codes aim to accomplish these objectives?