Slave codes ended with the abolition of slavery in 1865. Slave Codes were enacted to give slaveholders domination over their slaves. However, disgruntled southern states retaliated over the freeing of slaves by enacting "Black Codes" between 1865 and 1866 which took away any rights gained by the freedmen and enacted a de facto slave institution.
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