Black Codes

2. What type of services were enslaved people often forbidden from holding without supervision?
3. What document did free people of color need to carry in some states?
6. Who wrote the first defense of African enslavement based on skin color?
9. What economic activity were enslaved people generally prohibited from engaging in?
10. What term describes informal, everyday customs in society?
12. What theory linked skin color to climate?
13. What legal status did children of enslaved mothers inherit?
15. How could an enslaved person be emancipated?

1. What term describes laws that restricted the rights of free African Americans?
2. What religious-based theory was used to justify slavery?
4. Who proposed the "family order" concept to justify slavery?
5. What specific laws were used to control enslaved people?
7. What was illegal for enslaved people to learn?
8. What was the name for former enslaved people who escaped to free states?
11. What punishment did enslaved people often face for learning to read?
14. What term describes the process of freeing an enslaved person?