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Stuff You Should Know

What were the black codes?

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The black codes were proposed laws that basically tried to keep a form of slavery alive and well after the end of the Civil War. It didn't last long but the shadow of those codes still exist today.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.7

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:41.6

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

0:43.1

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's even here too, so this is a real deal wingeting

0:48.9

stuff you should know episode by goodness.

0:54.6

Yeah, I'm trying to toss a bone to the churchy types that listen to us.

0:58.8

Sure.

0:59.8

Not take the Lord's name and vein for no good reason.

1:03.1

By God.

1:04.1

Wait a minute, sorry.

1:05.1

I just messed it up.

1:07.3

You undermine everything and we have no way of getting rid of that now.

1:11.3

That's right, no edit function whatsoever.

1:17.0

So this was your pick, the black codes, which I heard the term before but I did not know

1:25.2

anything about and as I was researching it, good pick by the way.

1:30.5

I think this is something that everybody should know about.

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