In “Document B” the Black Codes state, “No negro shall be permitted to rent or keep a house within the limits of the town under any circumstances.” This section of the black codes takes the right to own property away from African American, while the whites are completely free and can own a house. Another section in the Black Codes says “No freedman who is not in the military service shall be allowed to carry firearms,
In “Document B” the Black Codes state, “No negro shall be permitted to rent or keep a house within the limits of the town under any circumstances.” This section of the black codes takes the right to own property away from African American, while the whites are completely free and can own a house. Another section in the Black Codes says “No freedman who is not in the military service shall be allowed to carry firearms,