This sparked a lot of unwanted attention and so the black codes had to be put in place. The Mississippi Black Codes document of 1865 was presented to us by Walter L. Fleming, who was a historian who worked on the South and more specifically on the Reconstruction era. He was targeting future historians who were studying this era. It almost spells out the pros and cons of what Mississippi's black codes asked of their citizens. There were several things in the document that interested me about what history was in that period. On the other hand, there were parts of the government amendments that I found very immoral with my mindset today. I realize those times were different, but it still made me sick to my stomach that "freedmen, free negroes, and mulattoes" were treated so much differently than the way white people were treated. The author divides the documents into different sections of the reconstruction plan. He initially talks about the Vagabond Laws, where newly emancipated citizens had special laws affecting them. They were treated like animals forced to work if they had no property. If they couldn't keep one job, on to the second