The Reconstruction: The Law Black Codes

The Reconstruction video was very interesting. Slaves was very excited to be freed that some just walk off of plantations. But knowing that there was so many freed slaves Abraham Lincoln had to do something. With the freed blacks so comfortable with their forty acre and mule which was promise to them, they taught that would’ve been their life. But when President Johnson pardon the plantation owners and they could’ve get their land back it was an issue for the freed blacks. One problem was the law Black Codes that as passed which David Blight stated “the laws was passed to control, restrict, and constrain the lives of the free people. Especially rendering them bondsmen on the law.” This law was crazy to me that they wanted to put the
blacks in slavery in a smart way. With so many killings in the south. Another problem was stated by Ted Tunnel “These gangs of whites guys were searching for the inspirations to other black people in the community they were killing them.” Some whites hated the fact that they had to be equal with blacks. They were probably doing any and everything to prevent that from happening.