SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Slave Codes
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Plantations Codes
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Jim Crow Laws
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Mason Dixon Codes
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Detailed explanation-1: -The bodies of law that evolved, known variously as “Slave Codes, ” “Black Codes, ” and “Code Noir, ” aimed to limit African social, economic and political autonomy as well as to control the growth of a free African population.
Detailed explanation-2: -The slave codes were laws relating to slavery and enslaved people, specifically regarding the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas. Most slave codes were concerned with the rights and duties of free people in regards to enslaved people.
Detailed explanation-3: -British planters influenced the construction of laws, known as ‘slave codes’, based on sixteenth century English common laws that dealt with English felons, vagrants, vagabonds, and servants that absconded from their duties.