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Reconstructing America, 1865–1877
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Black codes
Laws enacted by Southern state legislatures after the Civil War that granted limited rights to former slaves, including the right to marry, own land, and participate in the judicial process, but that also singled out Black people under the law and imposed severe restraints on their occupations, mobility, and rights as parents.