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read them, with some care.
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These Black Codes mirrored the old Slave Codes.
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They explicitly denied the right to vote to blacks,
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the right to serve on juries, the right to hold office,
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the right to own property.
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There were all kinds of restrictive vagrancy laws passed;
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Pass laws passed,
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where blacks could be at any given point in time, with or without a pass.
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And in this newly reconstructed Johnson approach to these states,
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there was a great deal of legislation already
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flowing rom some of these new state legislatures
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meant to directly obstruct the work of the Freedmen's Bureau.