Freedman's contract between Isham G. Bailey and freedmen Cooper Hughs and ... At the Institute's core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great ... 1867) Place Written: Marshall County, Miss.
The Black Codes, sometimes called Black Laws, were laws governing the conduct of African Americans (free and freed blacks). The best known of them were passed in 1865 and 1866 by Southern states, after the American Civil War, in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and to compel them to work for low wage