Extend discrimination laws to U.S. Citizens working for American companies outside of the U.S.
Limit the rights of the newly-freed slaves by continuing pre-Civil War slave
Black Codes were laws passed by the Southern States in 1865 and 1866 in the United States after the American Civil War with the intent and effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and forcing them to work in a labor-based economy. low wages or debt. Black codes were part of a larger pattern of southern whites, who were trying to suppress the new freedom of emancipated African-American slaves, the freedmen.
