HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jim Crow Laws, Jump Jim Crow, Grandfather Clause
Document Summary
Dubois wrote about the problem of the color line in america in his book (cid:498)souls of black folk(cid:499: the problem was contradictory ideals in the 20th (1903) century: Power it was constructed by whites to protect. To create order in society however it ended up creating disorder because of resistance from african. Americans and their white allies their political, economic power and social status. What do they do with the enslaved: black codes. Was created by the southern states first. A system of slave labor for people who had benefitted from black enslavement. Laws were created to put blacks back into labor camps where they worked on farms or did manual labor to rebuild infrastructure in the south. Blacks were also put into these camps if they. Designed to control blacks just like slavery after civil war. Ex: s. carolina passed law that said blacks could only be farmers/servants unless they paid taxes: freedman"s bureau.
