Examine three methods that the overwhelmingly white southern power structure used after the Civil war to make the exercise of freedom challenging for former slaves. Imagine life of the American people post-civil war during 1865 through 1877, a mixture of fear, hate, relief, and stress flowed throughout the land. Newly freed slave relieved that they are emancipated, however, some torn or grieved over separated or lost loved ones. Southern white land owners angry because they no longer had free labor, they no longer possessed the slaves to work the land. Resentful, southern whites collaborated with politicians and used insidious legislation and intimidation to try to maintain the way of life prior to the civil war. Methods such as the Black Codes, the formation of the KKK and the second Mississippi plan were tactics which occurred to make exercised freedom challenging for former slaves. Black Codes were set codes in the south which ranged in severity, which outlawed everything from landowning and unemployment or interracial marriage, to loitering in public areas. Black Codes in Mississippi were at the worst, the codes stripped the freed people from
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