Such as the 13th,14th and 15th and how they got work and land. Blacks enjoyed a brief period when they were allowed to vote, actively participate in the political process, acquire the land, seek their own employment, and use public accommodations. Opponents of this progress soon rallied against the former slaves' freedom and began to find means for eroding the gains for which many had shed their blood. One of these means was the vagrancy laws, they were a set of laws that made it so anyone could be arrested for doing nothing. Under these laws police arrested people, mostly freed blacks ranging from men and women to young kids, and punished them with a fine or several months in jail and from there they were sent to county labor or hired out to an
Such as the 13th,14th and 15th and how they got work and land. Blacks enjoyed a brief period when they were allowed to vote, actively participate in the political process, acquire the land, seek their own employment, and use public accommodations. Opponents of this progress soon rallied against the former slaves' freedom and began to find means for eroding the gains for which many had shed their blood. One of these means was the vagrancy laws, they were a set of laws that made it so anyone could be arrested for doing nothing. Under these laws police arrested people, mostly freed blacks ranging from men and women to young kids, and punished them with a fine or several months in jail and from there they were sent to county labor or hired out to an