Democratic (constitutionalist) Governor Benjamin G. Humphreys, of the confederate State of Mississippi, signs the first “Black Codes”—restrictions on freedmen. The Black Codes are so complex, so strict, that they were almost impossible not to violate, either by freedmen or by sympathetic State sovereign Citizens of European heritage.
NOTE: As a result, Mississippi was able to revive slavery (involuntary servitude), under a convict labor system. One code in particular prohibited freedmen from owning or transporting “fire-arms of any kind, or any ammunition, dirk or bowie knife.”
[restored 4/23/2022] Thanks to Jim Lorenz for his contributions to this entry.
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Authority:
Mississippi Constitution of 1832, Article VII, Slaves, Section 3
www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/mississippi-constitution-of-1832
References:
Jay Simkin and Aaron Zelman, Gun Control: Gateway to Tyranny (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, 1993), 9.
The Racist Origins Of Gun Control
www.sedgwickcounty.org/media/29093/the-racist-origins-of-us-gun-control.pdf
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