Question

During the Reconstruction Era, the Southern states created many laws and policies of their own. These “Black Codes” either tried to minimize federal laws and policies or were in retaliation to them.

Suppose you were a former slave during this era, which one of the following restrictions would you find the most offensive? Restrictions or prohibitions on voting Restrictions such as those on job, land purchase, and mobility Inability to serve on juries or accuse a white person in court.

Discuss the immediate and long-term consequences of your chosen restriction. Identify any lessons we can learn today from this restriction and its impact. Identify the source(s) where you read about the restriction.

Answer 1

The Era where Slaves were treated like a thing and has no right to say or speak and prohibited to do many activities which we can do today.If i were a former slave in today's condition and if i were restricted or prohibited to purchase a land then it would be the most offensive thing for me because all the earnings and jobs we do is to purchase a land so that we can build a home on it and make our life sustainable and does not have to be move here and there.If we were restricted to purchase a land then immediate consequences would be snatching our rights to purchase a property and freedom live and long term consequences will be living like a slave again who has now where to go and live and how we can live we have not our own land. we will be like people who lives on streets and spending their lives like Salves in past era.