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States came to assume jurisdiction over matters concerning the freedmen, they found themselves driven to some legislation to prevent the whole negro race from becoming paupers and criminals. It was in the face of such a situation that the legislatures of these
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States passed laws concerning apprenticeship, vagrancy and civil rights, which were looked upon at the North as attempts to re-enslave the newly emancipated, and served to bring the new
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State
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States had passed any laws upon these subjects. These two were Mississippi and South Carolina; and a close examination of the text of these enactments will hardly justify the interpretations placed upon them by the radical Republicans. The South Carolina Preliminary Act came first in the order of time. It provided that
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States, except of course in those parts of the country in which
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States
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An Act to regulate the relation of master and apprentice relative to Freedmen, Free Negroes, and Mulattoes, passed November 22, 1865 ; the
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Vagrant Act of November 24, 1865 ; an
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Act to Confer Civil Rights on Freedmen and for other purposes,