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Why did Mississippi's economy struggle to recover from the Civil War?

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White Mississippians meant to limit the political power of Black people by denying them civil rights. On another, deeper level, these codes revealed an economic struggle between former masters and freed enslaved people. Ex-masters wanted to force Black people to work as they had during bondage.

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