Abstract:Part One of the bibliography is a list of Websites where information concerns laws and cases that greatly impacted African American lives in the nineteenth century. These laws are listed chronologically beginning at slave codes to Plessy v. Ferguson. The slave codes and fugitive slave laws were meant to control the possibility of slave rebellion. As the History Channel stated, black codes and the Jim Crow laws were meant to maintain white supremacy and Southern agricultural society. The Dred Scott decision dec… Show more
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