13th Amendment, Reconstruction, and Circumscription Term Paper

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By enacting the Black Codes, starting in 1865, following the 13th Amendment, however, and by giving birth, in 1866, to the Ku Klux Klan and its reign of terror over the freedmen, the southern states successfully circumvented the actual enjoyment by blacks of most of the freedoms granted them by the 13th Amendment.

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Hill, Elias. "Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871." Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents. Ed. Michael

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Jefferson, Thomas. The Declaration of Independence. A History of the American People.

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Mississippi Black Code, November 1865." Reading the American Past: Selected Historical

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