Slave Codes of the South

Slave codes of the south added even more brutality to the slaves. It set even stricter codes for slaves to obey. These slave laws made so that no slave were allowed to read and write and also slaves were not allowed to be a witness against a white man is court. To the typical slave owning plantation owner  an uneducated slave meant he/she were easier to control than an educated slave. Here below is a picture of a slave who disobeyed the laws and was punished greatly for it.




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