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What did newly constituted state legislatures in the south do to restrict he freedom of former slaves?

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Passed laws called Black Codes
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Passed laws called Black Codes, is the right answer.

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The Black Codes were legislation enacted in the years between 1865 and 1866 by Southern states in the U.S. following the Civil War to limit the freedom of the African Americans community, and to force them to operate in a labor market based on cheap wages or debt. Such codes were a portion of a larger model of Southern whites seeking to secure political dominance and overcome the freedmen, recently freed African-American workers. Black codes were typically replacements for slave laws in those states.

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