Black Codes in the Southern States after Civil War, but especially South Carolina

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I came across this thesis which is in open access. It is long but very readable. This was a major way in which Jim Crow got started. South Carolina and Mississippi were considered the strictest. In fact, a Mississippi planter said that "they (south) played their hand too soon, were too open about what they were doing."

It was a way to try to force Blacks back to the land for another form of slavery.

"Slavery or at least southern whites ability to control the freedmen remained fundamental to
most whites in the South. This sentiment combined with northern white apathy towards
the condition of the freedmen enabled the white political leadership in the South to establish laws like the
Black Codes."

https://search.proquest.com/openvie...7e840/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
 
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