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- Black_Codes_(United_States) comment "In the United States, the most notorious Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.Since the early 1800s, many laws in both North and South discriminated systematically against free Blacks.".