The text below is from Georgia's Black Codes in the late 1800s: "All persons wandering or strolling about in idleness, who are a
ble to work, and who have no property to support them . . . shall be deemed and considered vagrants. It shall be lawful for any person to arrest said vagrants, and have them bound over for trial. Upon conviction they shall be fined or imprisoned, or sentenced to work on the public works or roads for no longer than a year." How did these laws limit the 13th Amendment?
The 13th Amendment was the amendment that abolished slavery in 1864. The problem with these Georgia's Black Codes is that they were just another way of keeping the blacks in a cycle of slavery. Slavery was prohibited in all instances except as a punishment for crime. Most of the African-Americans after the war have been jobless and this law basically made it possible for them to be arrested for being jobless and put to slavery once again.
Most former slaves had no employment and these laws made it possible to keep African Americans in a cycle of slavery by imprisoning them for being jobless.
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