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After the civil war the slaves had supposedly been freed but, they were not free in the since of what they could do. Even though they were said to be free they could be arrested for vagrancy. If a black was traveling and stopped in a town on their way they could be arrested and put back to work normally on another plantation. When blacks were first declared free they were seen as savages who would rape a white women at the slightest opportunity. After the southern states were readmitted to the union they put The Black Codes into effect. The Black Codes were new laws that placed taxes on free blacks who tried to pursue nonagricultural professions, restricted the abilities of blacks to rent land or own guns, and even allowed the children of supposedly "unfit" parents to be apprenticed to the old slave masters.

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