Black Code of Mississippi:

Governor Benjamin Grubb Humphreys (left) was the driving force behind the Black Code of Mississippi, a series of laws passed after the end of the Civil War directed at recently freed slaves. The Black Code defined the citizenship of African Americans as virtual enslavement. Historian Bradley G. Bond explains the meaning and context of the code in our DocNotes analysis.

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