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Solved by verified expert:Writing Assignment: The writing assignment intends to introduce students to primary texts that cover the period from English settlement to the American Civil War. Students are required to write one (1) paper. I have provided six (6) primary source texts of varying topics and you will choose one (1). Read the document and write a one (1) page response paper that addresses the below questions. All papers should be written in Times New Roman, 12pt font, one (1) inch margins, and double spaced. Once you have completed your response paper you will submit it through the corresponding Turnitin link.Guiding Questions: What type of text is it? When was it written? Who wrote it? Who was the intended audience? What was the purpose? What was the argument? What was the historical context of the writing? What if historians only used primary sources from one perspective? Why is it important to understand something from varying viewpoints? Connect this to the primary source under examination. Text Options: (I attached two other text options)Theodore Roosevelt and ConservationExecutive Order 9066JFK “We Choose to go to the Moon”Reagan’s Speech at the Brandenburg Gate
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Mississippi Black Code
Adapted from a document placed online by Jud Sage at Northern Virginia Community College
The status of the Negro was the focal problem of Reconstruction. Slavery had been abolished by the
Thirteenth Amendment, but the white people of the South were determined to keep the Negro in his
place, socially, politically, and economically. This was done by means of the notorious “Black Codes,”
passed by several of the state legislatures. Northerners regarded these codes as a revival of slavery in
disguise. The first such body of statutes, and probably the harshest, was passed in Mississippi in
November 1865. Four of the statutes that made up the code are reprinted below.
Source, Laws of the State of Mississippi, Passed at a Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature, held in Jackson, October,
November and December, 1965, Jackson, 1866, pp. 82-93, 165-167,
Apprentice Law
Section 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Mississippi, that it shall be the duty of all
sheriffs, justices of the peace, and other civil officers of the several counties in this state to report to the
Probate courts of their respective counties semiannually, at the January and July terms of said courts, all
freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes under the age of eighteen within their respective counties, beats,
or districts who are orphans, or whose parent or parents have not the means, or who refuse to provide
for and support said minors; and thereupon it shall be the duty of said Probate Court to order the clerk
of said court to apprentice said minors to some competent and suitable person, on such terms as the
court may direct, having a particular care to the interest of said minors:
Provided, that the former owner of said minors shall have the preference when, in the opinion of the
court, he or she shall be a Suitable person for that purpose.
Section 2. Be it further enacted, that the said court shall be fully satisfied that the person or persons to
whom said minor shall be apprenticed shall be a suitable person to have the charge and care of said
minor and fully to protect the interest of said minor. The said court shall require the said master or
mistress to execute bond and security, payable to the state of Mississippi, conditioned that he or she
shall furnish said minor with sufficient food and clothing; to treat said minor humanely; furnish medical
attention in case of sickness; teach or cause to be taught him or her to read and write, if under fifteen
years old; and will conform to any law that may be hereafter passed for the regulation of the duties and
relation of master and apprentice:
Provided, that said apprentice shall be bound by indenture, in case of males until they are twenty-one
years old, and in case of females until they are eighteen years old.
Section 3. Be it further enacted, that in the management and control of said apprentices, said master or
mistress shall have power to inflict such moderate corporeal chastisement as a father or guardian is
allowed to inflict on his or her child or ward at common law:
Provided, that in no case shall cruel or inhuman punishment be inflicted.
Section 4. Be it further enacted, that if any apprentice shall leave the employment of his or her master
or mistress without his or her consent, said master or mistress may pursue and recapture said apprentice
and bring him or her before any justice of the peace of the county, whose duty it shall be to remand said
apprentice to the service of his or her master or mistress; and in the event of a refusal on the part of said
apprentice so to return, then said justice shall commit said apprentice to the jail of said county, on
failure to give bond, until the next term of the county court; and it shall be the duty of said court, at the
first term thereafter, to investigate said case; and if the court shall be of opinion that said apprentice left
the employment of his or her master or mistress without good cause, to order him or her to be punished,
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as provided for the punishment of hired freedmen, as may be from time to time provided for by law, for
desertion, until he or she shall agree to return to his or her master or mistress:
Provided, that the court may grant continuances, as in other cases; and provided, further, that if the
court shall believe that said apprentice had good cause to quit his said master or mistress, the court shall
discharge said apprentice from said indenture and also enter a judgment against the master or mistress
for not more than $100, for the use and benefit of said apprentice, to be collected on execution, as in
other cases.
Section 5. Be it further enacted, that if any person entice away any apprentice from his or her master or
mistress, or shall knowingly employ an apprentice, or furnish him or her food or clothing, without the
written consent of his or her master or mistress, of shall sell or give said apprentice ardent spirits,
without such consent, said person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and
shall, on conviction thereof before the county court, be punished as provided for the punishment of
persons enticing from their employer hired freedmen, free Negroes, or mulattoes.
Section 6. Be it further enacted, that it shall be the duty of all civil officers of their respective counties
to report any minors within their respective counties to said Probate Court who are subject to be
apprenticed under the provisions of this act, from time to time, as the facts may come to their
knowledge; and it shall be the duty of said court, from time to time, as said minors shall be reported to
them or otherwise come to their knowledge, to apprentice said minors as hereinbefore provided.
Section 7. Be it further enacted, that in case the master or mistress of any apprentice shall desire, he or
she shall have the privilege to summon his or her said apprentice to the Probate Court, and thereupon,
with the approval of the court, he or she shall be released from all liability as master of said apprentice,
and his said bond shall be canceled, and it shall be the duty of the court forthwith to reapprentice said
minor; and in the event any master of in apprentice shall die before the close of the term of service of
said apprentice, it shall be the duty of the court to give the preference in reapprenticing said minor to
the widow, or other member of said master’s family:
Provided, that said widow or other member of said family shall be a suitable person for that purpose.
Section 8. Be it further enacted, that in case any master or mistress of any apprentice, bound to him or
her under this act shall be about to remove or shall have removed to any other state of the United States
by the laws of which such apprentice may be an inhabitant thereof, the Probate Court of the proper
county may authorize the removal of such apprentice to such state, upon the said master or mistress
entering into bond, with security, in a penalty to be fixed by the judge, conditioned that said master or
mistress will, upon such removal, comply with the laws of such state in such cases:
Provided, that said master shall be cited to attend the court at which such order is proposed to be made
and shall have a right to resist the same by next friend, or otherwise.
Section 9. Be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for any freedman, free Negro, or Mulatto having
a minor child or children to apprentice the said minor child or children as provided for by this act.
Section 10. Be it further enacted, that in all cases where the age of the freedman, free Negro, or mulatto
cannot be ascertained by record testimony, the judge of the county court shall fix the age.
II.
Vagrancy Law
Section 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Mississippi, that all rogues and vagabonds, idle
and dissipated persons, beggars, jugglers, or persons practising unlawful games or plays, runaways,
common drunkards, common nightwalkers, pilferers, lewd, wanton, or lascivious persons, in speech or
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behavior, common railers and brawlers, persons who neglect their calling or employment, misspend
what they earn, or do not provide for the support of themselves or their families or dependents, and all
other idle and disorderly persons, including all who neglect all lawful business, or habitually misspend
their time by frequenting houses of ill-fame, gaming houses, or tippling shops, shall be deemed and
considered vagrants under the provisions of this act; and, on conviction thereof shall be fined not
exceeding $100, with all accruing costs, and be imprisoned at the discretion of the court not exceeding
ten days.
Section 2. Be it further enacted, that all freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes in this state over the age
of eighteen years found on the second Monday in January 1966, or thereafter, with no lawful
employment or business, or found unlawfully assembling themselves together either in the day or
nighttime, and all white persons so assembling with freedmen, free Negroes, or mulattoes, or usually
associating with freedmen, free Negroes, or mulattoes on terms of equality, or living in adultery or
fornication with a freedwoman, free Negro, or mulatto, shall be deemed vagrants; and, on conviction
thereof, shall be fined in the sum of not exceeding, in the case of a freedman, free Negro, or mulatto,
150, and a white man, $200, and imprisoned at the discretion of the court, the free Negro not exceeding
ten days, and the white man not exceeding six months.
Section 3. Be it further enacted, that all justices of the peace, mayors, and aldermen of incorporated
towns and cities of the several counties in this state shall have jurisdiction to try all questions of
vagrancy in their respective towns, counties, and cities; and it is hereby made their duty, whenever they
shall ascertain that any person or persons in their respective towns, counties, and cities are violating any
of the provisions of this act, to have said party or parties arrested and brought before them and
immediately investigate said charge; and, on conviction, punish said party or parties as provided for
herein. And it is hereby made the duty of all sheriffs, constables, town constables, city marshals, and all
like officers to report to some officer having jurisdiction all violations of any of the provisions of this
act; and it shall be the duty of the county courts to inquire if any officers have neglected any of the
duties required by this act; and in case any officer shall fail or neglect any duty herein, it shall be the
duty of the county court to fine said officer, upon conviction, not exceeding $100, to be paid into the
county treasury for county purposes.
Section 4. Be it further enacted, that keepers of gaming houses, houses of prostitution, all prostitutes,
public or private, and all persons who derive their chief support in employments that militate against
good morals or against laws shall be deemed and held to be vagrants.
Section 5. Be it further enacted, that all fines and forfeitures collected under the provisions of this act
shall be paid into the county treasury for general county purposes; and in case any freedman, free
Negro, or mulatto shall fail for five days after the imposition of any fine or forfeiture upon him or her
for violation of any of the provisions of this act to pay the same, that it shall be, and is hereby made, the
duty of the sheriff of the proper county to hire out said freedman, free Negro, or mulatto to any person
who will, for the shortest period of service, pay said fine or forfeiture and all costs:
Provided, a preference shall be given to the employer, if there be one, in which case the employer shall
be entitled to deduct and retain the amount so paid from the wages of such freedman, free Negro, or
mulatto then due or to become due; and in case such freedman, free Negro, or mulatto cannot be hired
out he or she may be dealt with as a pauper.
Section 6. Be it further enacted, that the same duties and liabilities existing among white persons of this
state shall attach to freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes to support their indigent families and all
colored paupers; and that, in order to secure a support for such indigent freedmen, free Negroes, and
mulattoes, it shall be lawful, and it is hereby made the duty of the boards of county police of each
county in this state, to levy a poll or capitation tax on each and every freedman, free Negro, or mulatto,
between the ages of eighteen and sixty years, not to exceed the sum of s I annually, to each person so
taxed, which tax, when collected, shall be paid into the county treasurer’s hands and constitute a fund to
be called the Freedman’s Pauper Fund, which shall be applied by the commissioners of the poor for the
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be called the Freedman’s Pauper Fund, which shall
be applied by the commissioners of the poor for the
maintenance of the poor of the freedmen, free Negroes. and mulattoes of this state, under such
regulations as may be established by the boards of county police, in the respective counties of this state.
Section 7. Be it further enacted, that if any freedman, free Negro, or mulatto shall fail or refuse to pay
any tax levied according to the provisions of the 6th Section of this act, it shall be prima facie evidence
of vagrancy, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to arrest such freedman, free Negro, or mulatto, or
such person refusing or neglecting to pay such tax, and proceed at once to hire, for the shortest time,
such delinquent taxpayer to anyone who will pay the said tax, with accruing costs, giving preference to
the employer, if there be one.
Section 8. Be it further enacted, that any person feeling himself or herself aggrieved by the judgment of
any justice of the peace, mayor, or alderman in cases arising under this act may, within five days,
appeal to the next term of the county court of the proper county, upon giving bond and security in a sum
not less than $25 nor more than $150, conditioned to appear and prosecute said appeal, and abide by the
judgment of the county court, and said appeal shall be tried de novo in the county court, and the
decision of said court shall be final.
Civil Rights of Freedmen
Section 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Mississippi, that all freedmen, free Negroes,
and mulattoes may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in all the courts of law and equity of this
state, and may acquire personal property and choses in action, by descent or purchase, and may dispose
of the same in the same manner and to the same extent that white persons may:
Provided, that the provisions of this section shall not be construed as to allow any freedman, free
Negro, or mulatto to rent or lease any lands or tenements, except in incorporated towns or cities, in
which places the corporate authorities shall control the same.
Section 2. Be it further enacted, that all freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes may intermarry with
each other, in the same manner and under the same regulations that are provided by law for white
persons:
Provided, that the clerk of probate shall keep separate records of the same.
Section 3. Be it further enacted, that all freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes who do now and have
heretofore lived and cohabited together as husband and wife shall be taken and held in law as legally
married, and the issue shall be taken and held as legitimate for all purposes. That it shall not be lawful
for any freedman, free Negro, or mulatto to intermarry with any white person; nor for any white person
to intermarry with any freedman, free Negro, or mulatto; and any person who shall so intermarry shall
be deemed guilty of felony and, on conviction thereof, shall be confined in the state penitentiary for
life; and those shall be deemed freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes who are of pure Negro blood;
and those descended from a Negro to the third generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each
generation may have been a white person.
Section 4. Be it further enacted, that in addition to cases in which freedmen, free Negroes, and
mulattoes are now by law competent witnesses, freedmen, free Negroes, or mulattoes shall be
competent in civil cases when a party or parties to the suit, either plaintiff or plaintiffs, defendant or
defendants, also in cases where freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes is or are either plaintiff or
plaintiffs, defendant or defendants, and a white person or white persons is or are the opposing party or
parties, plaintiff or plaintiffs, defendant or defendants. They shall also be competent witnesses in all
criminal prosecutions where the crime charged is alleged to have been committed by a white person
upon or against the person or property of a freedman, free Negro, or mulatto:
Provided, that in all cases said witnesses shall be examined in open court on the stand, except, however,
they may be examined before the grand jury, and shall in all cases be subject to the rules and tests of the
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common law as to competency and credibility.
Section 5. Be it further enacted, that every freedman, free Negro, and mulatto shall, on the second
Monday of January 1866, and annually thereafter, have a lawful home or employment, and shall have a
written evidence thereof, as follows, to wit: if living in any incorporated city, town, or village, a license
from the mayor thereof; and if living outside of any incorporated city, town, or village, from the
member of the board of police of his beat, authorizing him or her to do irregular and job work, or a
written contract, as provided in Section 6 of this act, which licenses may be revoked for cause, at any
time, by the authority granting the same.
Section 6. Be it further enacted, that all contracts for labor made with freedmen, free Negroes, and
mulattoes for a longer period than one month shall be in writing and in duplicate, attested and read to
said freedman, free Negro, or mulatto by a beat, city, or county officer, or two disinterested white
persons of the county in which the labor is to be performed, of which each party shall have one; and
said contracts shall be taken and held as entire contracts; and if the laborer shall quit the service of the
employer before expiration of his term of service without good cause, he shall forfeit his wages for that
year, up to the time of quitting.
Section 7. Be it further enacted, that every civil officer shall, and every person may, arrest and carry
back to his or her legal employer any freedman, free Negro, or mulatto who shall have quit the service
of his or her employer before the expiration of his or her term of service without good cause, and said
officer and person shall be entitled to receive for arresting and carrying back every deserting employee
aforesaid the sum of $5, and 10 cents per mile from the place of arrest to the place of delivery, and the
same shall be paid by the employer, and held as a setoff for so much against the wages of said deserting
employee:
Provided, that said arrested party, after being so returned, may appeal to a justice of the peace or
member of the board of police of the county, who, on notice to the alleged employer, shall try
summarily whether said appellant is legally employed by the alleged employer and his good cause to
quit said employer; either party shall have the right of appeal to the county court, pending which the
alleged deserter shall be remanded to the alleged employer or otherwise disposed of as shall be right
and just, and the decision of the county court shall be final.
Section 8. Be it further enacted, that …
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