They freed the body but tried to trap the future. Black Codes handed “rights” with one hand and a leash with the other. Reconstruction was emancipation with an asterisk. #ReconstructionTruth #AfterSlavery
Web: Encyclopedia of Reconstruction, “Black Codes.”
Post:: America had a plan for free black people after slavery but it wasn't equality it wasn't land it wasn't reparations it wouldn't justice now their solution was simple get rid of us pack us up ship us off and make someone else's… #LilX #blackpeople #afterslavery #wasntequality #wasntwasnt
