And they dealt with the problem by burning schools established by blacks to educate the children of ex-slaves. And they dealt with it by a continuing succession of black codes and practices that relegated blacks to a kind of peonage while finding ways to make sure they could only play a role in society by being bound laborers on white men’s land (Friedman, 2005). Among the black codes were a series of vagrancy laws which had the effect of maintaining strict control over
And they dealt with the problem by burning schools established by blacks to educate the children of ex-slaves. And they dealt with it by a continuing succession of black codes and practices that relegated blacks to a kind of peonage while finding ways to make sure they could only play a role in society by being bound laborers on white men’s land (Friedman, 2005). Among the black codes were a series of vagrancy laws which had the effect of maintaining strict control over