Latest posts tagged with #blackcodes on Bluesky
Slavery didn’t just “end” in 1865.
It was rerouted.
The punishment clause of the 13th Amendment wasn’t a footnote. It was infrastructure and it shaped everything that followed.
I unpacked that architecture in a new Substack essay.
Link in bio. #Emancipation #BlackCodes #13thAmendment
Mississippi’s Vagrancy Law stated mixed-race or African American, over 18 (after January 15, 1866) unemployed and hanging out with White people in public, were subject to arrest for vagrancy.
SOURCE: Mississippi #BlackCodes, 1865-1866, by Peder Punsalan-Teigen for Black Past
#AmericanHistory
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"[Former Confederate soldier in state governments] passed legislation known as the #BlackCodes. The purpose of the laws were to reinstall something close to slavery." SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
3/5
Free from threat of the gallows for treason, these [former Confederate] white men – like General Humphreys, who fought against the Union at Gettysburg and became governor of Michigan – took positions in state governments. SOURCE: #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#BlackCodes
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1865: Mississippi and South Carolina, First States to Enact #BlackCodes
Context: After Lincoln’s death, the new president, Andrew Johnson granted amnesty to many in the Confederate leadership. SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
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Reconstruction and the Black Codes: Federal Supremacy's Victory Over State Oppression
www.patreon.com/posts/145271549
#USDemocracy #DoubleV #BlackCodes
Mississippi’s Vagrancy Law stated mixed-race or African American, over 18 (after January 15, 1866) unemployed and hanging out with White people in public, were subject to arrest for vagrancy.
SOURCE: Mississippi #BlackCodes, 1865-1866, by Peder Punsalan-Teigen for Black Past
#AmericanHistory
4/5
"[Former Confederate soldier in state governments] passed legislation known as the #BlackCodes. The purpose of the laws were to reinstall something close to slavery." SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
3/5
Free from threat of the gallows for treason, these [former Confederate] white men – like General Humphreys, who fought against the Union at Gettysburg and became governor of Michigan – took positions in state governments. SOURCE: #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#BlackCodes
2/5
1865: Mississippi and South Carolina, First States to Enact #BlackCodes
Context: After Lincoln’s death, the new president, Andrew Johnson granted amnesty to many in the Confederate leadership. SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
1/5
American policing was built on slave patrols.
After the Civil War, Black Codes disarmed freedmen while ex-Confederates & militias became police.
Many officers were also KKK.
That legacy still shapes over-policing & racist gun laws today.
#Police #KKK #BlackCodes #GunCulture #GOP #Confederacy
Gun rights in America were never equal.
After the Civil War, Black Codes disarmed freed black men while white militias stayed armed.
That legacy lives on: NRA defended white gun rights, but not the Panthers.
GOP still sells “freedom” built on racial control. #GunCulture #BlackCodes #NRA #GOP
This is just hilarious man.... These folks free'd slaves and immediately were like hey being unemployed is a crime so now we will arrest you and send you back out there in the fields to work
W T F. Vagrancy Laws #BlackCodes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXKc...
#birthrightcitizenship #immigration #undocumentedimmigrants #4thAmendment #FourteenthAmendment #donaldtrump #citizensunited #SupremeCourt #jussolis #dredscott #blackcodes #history #Americanhistory #UShistory #UnitedStatesHistory #blackcodes #constitutionalhistory
Mississippi’s Vagrancy Law stated mixed-race or African American, over 18 (after January 15, 1866) unemployed and hanging out with White people in public, were subject to arrest for vagrancy.
SOURCE: Mississippi #BlackCodes, 1865-1866, by Peder Punsalan-Teigen for Black Past
#AmericanHistory
4/5
"[Former Confederate soldier in state governments] passed legislation known as the #BlackCodes. The purpose of the laws were to reinstall something close to slavery." SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
3/5
Free from threat of the gallows for treason, these [former Confederate] white men – like General Humphreys, who fought against the Union at Gettysburg and became governor of Michigan – took positions in state governments. SOURCE: #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#BlackCodes
2/5
1865: Mississippi and South Carolina, First States to Enact #BlackCodes
Context: After Lincoln’s death, the new president, Andrew Johnson granted amnesty to many in the Confederate leadership. SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
1/5
Grateful for @hcrichardson.bsky.social history lesson around #Juneteenth. Education of #Americas #BlackHistory #BlackCodes #14thAmendment #VotingRights #EqualProtection #ForcedLabor. All worthy of your time! #NoKings #MayDay #HandsOff
#Juneteenth "While chattel #slavery was legally abolished, #AfricanAmericans continued to endure #systemicoppression through laws like the #BlackCodes, which restricted basic rights... These post- #emancipation barriers combined with generations of racial and economic #discrimination...
Defendants @scot.us #supremecourt #supremecourtjustice #conspiracytocommit #globalgenocide #genocidecrimes #genocide #withprejudice #blacklivesmattervstrump #blackhistory #blackcodes #gotguttedout #gotfired #again #yourhonor #internationalcriminalcourt #internationalcourtofjustice
Mississippi’s Vagrancy Law stated mixed-race or African American, over 18 (after January 15, 1866) unemployed and hanging out with White people in public, were subject to arrest for vagrancy.
SOURCE: Mississippi #BlackCodes, 1865-1866, by Peder Punsalan-Teigen for Black Past
#AmericanHistory
4/5
"[Former Confederate soldier in state governments] passed legislation known as the #BlackCodes. The purpose of the laws were to reinstall something close to slavery." SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
3/5
Free from threat of the gallows for treason, these [former Confederate] white men – like General Humphreys, who fought against the Union at Gettysburg and became governor of Michigan – took positions in state governments. SOURCE: #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
#BlackCodes
2/5
1865: Mississippi and South Carolina, First States to Enact #BlackCodes
Context: After Lincoln’s death, the new president, Andrew Johnson granted amnesty to many in the Confederate leadership. SOURCE: The #1619Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
ugly #AmericanHistory
#WhiteSupremacy
1/5
Defendants Supreme Court Justice corruption falsefying Judicial degrees covering up Falsefying slavery data #withprejudice Wire Fraud RICO scheme throughout MAGA Special Needs Guttedout #blackhistory #blackcodes #enforcement teaching false vital information surrounding Genocide crimes indefinitely
#embezzlement in excess of #380billion #inprogress #globalgenocide #genocide already stolen from #slaves #slavecodes #blackcodes #lootingtrumpsupporters #lootingdeadveterans #veteransgraverobber 😱🔥🔥🔥💥
Defendants @scot.us #chiefjusticejohnroberts #supremecourt #supremecourtjustice #fifthcircuitcourtofappeals #texasfederaljudge #enforcement #blackcodes falsefying Judicial degrees covering up embezzlement in excess of 75Trillion US Dollars from #slaves never set free until February 7th 2013 🤯 🔥