When slavery ended... What happened immediately?

[BlackSmurf]

The Black Codes...

Black Codes in the Former Confederate States​

Encouraged by President Johnson's evident intention to return to them the management of their own affairs, Southern legislators, elected by white voters, passed what came to be called Black Codes. Their very evident purpose was to reduce free blacks to a new kind of legal servitude distinguished by all the disadvantages of slavery and none of its advantages--a state, many argued, that was worse than slavery itself. That the Black Codes were not the result of a brief lapse in judgment on the part of Southern legislatures or the work of extremists but rose, rather, out of the famous grassroots is indicated by an ordinance passed immediately after the war in the small town of Opelousas, Louisiana; it stated that "no negro or freedmen shall be allowed to come within the limits of the town of Opelousas without special permission from his employers. . . . Whoever shall violate this provision shall suffer imprisonment and two days work on the public streets, or pay a fine of five dollars." Any Negro found on the streets of the town after ten o'clock in the evening had to work for five days on the public streets or pay a $5 fine. The ordinance further provided: "No negro or freedman shall be permitted to rent or keep a house within the limits of the town under any circumstances. . . . No negro or freedman shall reside within the limits of the town . . . who is not in the regular service of some white person or former owner. . . . No public meetings or congregations of negroes or freedmen shall be allowed within the limits of the town. . . . No negro or freedman shall be permitted to preach, exhort, or otherwise declaim to congregations of colored people without a special permission from the mayor or president of the board of police.. .. No freedman ... shall be allowed to carry firearms, or any kind of weapons.... No freedman shall sell, barter, or exchange any article of merchandise within the limits of Opelousas without permission in writing from his employer In the parish of St. Landry it was required "that every negro [is] to be in the service of some white person, or former owner. ...


Check this Link for the whole story:
http://www.civilwarhome.com/blackcodes.htm
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[krunkwerks]

niggas started snap dancin'

 

[Mr. Del]

Lol^^^^

 

[BlackSmurf]

niggas started snap dancin'

:LOL:

 

[RunawaySlave]

I don't think they're reading it man. Because weren't NOTHING
funny about that shit. Even though you were LEGALLY free, if
you got caught in certain circumstances, your black behind could
actually be enslaved again......by law

 

[DoubleD]

Always thought this would make a great Movie....It would demonstrate that the only restitution that Black people received was that of being treated like animals in a den of predators... It was against the law for Blacks to take arms (own guns) and it was NOT against the law to hunt down freed slaves and murder them....Ever heard of Alabama Tree Apples? Pic-Nic (Pick a ****** to lynch)...All of this was thrust upon a freed slaves (men women and children) traveling 100's miles on foot from the South, often with no food, shelter or decent shoes and clothing...and battling the US wildlife (bears, wolves, snakes, alligators, etc...) in the process... In addition, Blacks that were captured, were thrown in Jail or prison on false charges and forced back to the plantations to work as prison labor.... This is the history that America would love to forget....hide form the rest of the world as we (America) presents it's self as the moral compass for the rest of the world!

America's history is frighteningly sick....Sadly, we (African Americans) have increasingly added to it by victimizing and killing more black people than ever before. History has shown the evil that the Klan has done to Black America, and there are a few recent instances of white people victimizing Blacks, but for the most part, a Black Man's greatest fear today....is of another Black Man....

 

[BlackSmurf]

...Sadly, we (African Americans) have increasingly added to it by victimizing and killing more black people than ever before.

You will need to go deep, very deep to understand what you are observing I don't have the time now to go into a long explanation of it all. I hope someone else will.

 

[jiggylo09]

Believe it or not that law still goes on in NY...Get caught in a white neighborhood after 10 oclock here and ur black and see what goes down...

 

[SPECTRE1]

Slave=Employee

All they did was move us from being slaves to employees of their masters (economic slaves). It is just like South Africa where they were forced to end apartheid but the whites owned everything anyways.

What is worse being hung up on tree as a slave or being fired as an employee, blacklisted from working for another master, and starved to death. If things don't improve in this country all non-whites will be employees of white people.

I always wonder why the Civil Rights Act didn't have equal business language; just being treated equally as an employee.

 

[John_Gault]

When slavery ended... What happened immediately?

As Far As I Can Tell, Mental And Existential Slavery BEGAN.

JG

 

[Negro Taveras]

what happened after black codes?

 

[gene cisco]

what happened after black codes?

errr.

Jim crow and now the jim crow 2 the war on drugs.

 

[Oakland NUPE]

errr.

Jim crow and now the jim crow 2 the war on drugs.

Fuck Opelousas, Louisiana. They have been and still are hella racist. It is odd that they have some of the most ignorrant and countriest Black folks on the planet there. Shake dance and Fema check parties each weekend...

 

[BlackSmurf]

Slave=Employee

All they did was move us from being slaves to employees of their masters (economic slaves). It is just like South Africa where they were forced to end apartheid but the whites owned everything anyways.

What is worse being hung up on tree as a slave or being fired as an employee, blacklisted from working for another master, and starved to death. If things don't improve in this country all non-whites will be employees of white people.

I always wonder why the Civil Rights Act didn't have equal business language; just being treated equally as an employee.

Co-sign on that.

 

[TheKingofVa]

Always thought this would make a great Movie....It would demonstrate that the only restitution that Black people received was that of being treated like animals in a den of predators... It was against the law for Blacks to take arms (own guns) and it was NOT against the law to hunt down freed slaves and murder them....Ever heard of Alabama Tree Apples? Pic-Nic (Pick a ****** to lynch)...All of this was thrust upon a freed slaves (men women and children) traveling 100's miles on foot from the South, often with no food, shelter or decent shoes and clothing...and battling the US wildlife (bears, wolves, snakes, alligators, etc...) in the process... In addition, Blacks that were captured, were thrown in Jail or prison on false charges and forced back to the plantations to work as prison labor.... This is the history that America would love to forget....hide form the rest of the world as we (America) presents it's self as the moral compass for the rest of the world!

America's history is frighteningly sick....Sadly, we (African Americans) have increasingly added to it by victimizing and killing more black people than ever before. History has shown the evil that the Klan has done to Black America, and there are a few recent instances of white people victimizing Blacks, but for the most part, a Black Man's greatest fear today....is of another Black Man....

Great post and I agree 100 percent

 

[wedrinkandscrew]

seems to me like all those codes are in full effect today....no congregating,gives us all felonies so you can't carry weapons,can't sell shit without a permit......nothings changed.

 

[Dbl Mny]

Exactly. They made it almost impossible for many blacks to be law abiding citizens. So that whenever we don't exploit ourselves they can.

 

[jblaque]

Believe it or not that law still goes on in NY...Get caught in a white neighborhood after 10 oclock here and ur black and see what goes down...

 

[puertorock2005]

aight, blacksmurf, are you that white cat that's taking my history class too?

 

[Electric Relaxation]

Fuck Opelousas, Louisiana. They have been and still are hella racist. It is odd that they have some of the most ignorrant and countriest Black folks on the planet there. Shake dance and Fema check parties each weekend...

lol @ Fema check parties...

Can't lie though--I know some beautiful women from Opelousas (They're all kinda crazy though...)

 

[Electric Relaxation]

aight, blacksmurf, are you that white cat that's taking my history class too?

OOOOOHHHH!

 

[BCSD2012]

Niggas went and got that 4 piece combo with an extra biscuit and a strawberry soda

 

[BlackSmurf]

aight, blacksmurf, are you that white cat that's taking my history class too?

LOL! don't think so.. I aint neva been white and aint been to class in 6 years.