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Slave codes were passed in southern states in order to

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White Southerners, seeking to control the freedmen (former slaves), devised special state law codes. Many Northerners saw these codes as blatant attempts to restore slavery. Five days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was shot.
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