How long did black codes exist?
Congress did not pass the "Black codes" these codes were pass by
the states and they were not the same in every state, they were
codes to keep slave in there place like thing you would tell your
children not to do because if you broke one of the codes you was
suggest to get a whipping. Whipping a slave consisted of anywhere
from 50 to 500 hundred lashes with a bull whip, the breaking of
some "Black Codes", could end in you being hung or burned at the
stake. White America was afraid of slave revolt's so they invented
the "Black Codes".