What Were The Effects Of The Amendments And The “Black Codes” Established After The Civil War On Race And Black Equality?
The end of the Civil War marked the end of slavery for a lot of black Southerners. However, with the aim of controlling the already freedmen, the whites developed the “black codes”-special state law codes which limited the rights and freedom of the former slaves and made sure that the blacks still provided cheap labour (Berlin et al.). Restrictive codes were passed with the aim of controlling the behaviours and

