How did local laws throughout the south degrade african american

It crippled them economically forcing them into cheap labor Most of the time it disenfranchised them The black codes were passed which were essentially a set of restrictive laws passed during johnsons presidency which in a lot of states forced black people to sign labor contracts otherwise they would have been fined or jailed or sold back into basically slavery

The first one is russia because in russia they were on the rough times and they never had a way to get out of