Black Codes During The Reconstruction Era

Slaves during the Reconstruction Era were enlightened and rejoiceful that the sense of change was coming to the South and all of the United States. The African American community faced many hardships during their time of captivity under the law of the white southern slave owners and traders. Since that was their many sources of labor and income from domestic and foreign regions of America that were either owned or affiliated with. So to prevent their slaves from achieving such freedom or news relating to the new laws the South passed laws and regulation within the states’ borders along the southern states of America, which inflicted with their way of living. Yet, religious services gave a purpose and influence the Black community. The Black Codes was passed during the reconstruction period after the civil war around the years of 1865 and 1866. The law purpose was to restrict the African Americans’ freedom and compelled them to work in labor economics for low wages and debt. Also, the Black Codes were part of a larger pattern in the southern white community. Not only were they trying to suppress the African Americans’ new freedom, they were trying to keep the maintenance of the system of White supremacy in
Having being denied education and wages under slavery, sharecropping occurred and came into wide use in the Southern United States. Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. This affected African American families because many black families rented land from white owners and raised cash crops like cotton, tobacco, and rice. Two-thirds of all sharecroppers were poor whites and one third was black. Both groups were at the bottom of the social ladder, but with full expectations that church will restore their faith in