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Protect not only the property but also the property owner from the danger of slave violence.
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Inherent in the institution of slavery were certain social controls, which enslavers amplified with laws to protect not only the property but also the property owner from the danger of slave violence. The slave codes were forerunners of the Black codes of the mid-19th century.
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Up until 1895, the U.S. didn't get involved when European governments would create puppet governments, so as to avoid obvious colonization.
One of the immediate results of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West was that the area soon became home to a great deal of lawlessness, since the Roman armies were no longer there to safeguard.