After the war, the victorious northern states enforced the 13th amendment (abolition of slavery), 14th amendment (everyone born in the United States is a citizen or has equal citizenship) and 15th amendment (granted the right for African Americans to vote). These amendments shared powers to decide or input laws in the country. Indeed, changing routines seem to be possible for some people and not acceptable to others in the same country or region. This mindset of changing routines may be the same as for the mentality of some people to refuse and accept new orders, ideas, or even laws. For instance, due to a person’s accustomed practices, the ideology of trying to withdraw those same practices usually takes time or is impossible to expel of the
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“The Mississippi Black Code is an example of the manner by which the southern states strove to maintain the old order while limiting the newly acquired rights of African Americans.” In other words, these Black Codes were blind spots from the 13 to 15 amendments that aimed the past and depressing moments of suffering of African Americans in the South. It can be possible to know that slavery was reimposed by looking at the story of the Georgia Negro Peon when he states “… if we got mad and ran away, we could be run down by bloodhounds, arrested without process of law, and returned to our employer, who according to the contract, might beat us brutally or administer any other kind of punishment that he though proper.” This example illustrates another reimposition of slavery by means of law by the fact the Georgia Peon was put into a situation where he could not escape or everybody will be against him, regarding that African Americans had not office power. To prove that the Georgia Peon was indeed right to be afraid, section 7 of the Mississippi Black Codes state that “Every civil officer shall, and every person may, arrest and carry back to his or her legal employer any freedman, free negro, or mulatto who shall have quit the service of his or her employer before the expiration of his or her term of service without good cause; and said officer and person shall be entitled to receive for arresting and carrying back every deserting employee aforesaid the sum of five dollars, and ten cents per mile from the place of arrest to the place of delivery…” Basically, with the help of this law, the proof that many African Americans in the South were afraid can be achievable. The amendments 13th to 15th made these black codes possible because the Black Codes were no violating any of them, but, in fact, they were loopholes to the era before the Civil War. Plus, the possibility of African Americans being beaten can
“The Mississippi Black Code is an example of the manner by which the southern states strove to maintain the old order while limiting the newly acquired rights of African Americans.” In other words, these Black Codes were blind spots from the 13 to 15 amendments that aimed the past and depressing moments of suffering of African Americans in the South. It can be possible to know that slavery was reimposed by looking at the story of the Georgia Negro Peon when he states “… if we got mad and ran away, we could be run down by bloodhounds, arrested without process of law, and returned to our employer, who according to the contract, might beat us brutally or administer any other kind of punishment that he though proper.” This example illustrates another reimposition of slavery by means of law by the fact the Georgia Peon was put into a situation where he could not escape or everybody will be against him, regarding that African Americans had not office power. To prove that the Georgia Peon was indeed right to be afraid, section 7 of the Mississippi Black Codes state that “Every civil officer shall, and every person may, arrest and carry back to his or her legal employer any freedman, free negro, or mulatto who shall have quit the service of his or her employer before the expiration of his or her term of service without good cause; and said officer and person shall be entitled to receive for arresting and carrying back every deserting employee aforesaid the sum of five dollars, and ten cents per mile from the place of arrest to the place of delivery…” Basically, with the help of this law, the proof that many African Americans in the South were afraid can be achievable. The amendments 13th to 15th made these black codes possible because the Black Codes were no violating any of them, but, in fact, they were loopholes to the era before the Civil War. Plus, the possibility of African Americans being beaten can