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If any apprentice shall leave the employment of his or her master or mistress without his or her consent, said master or mistress may pursue and recapture said apprentice and bring him or her before any justice of the peace of the county, whose duty it shall be to remand [return] said apprentice to the service of his or her master or mistress. All freedmen... over the age of eighteen years found ... with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawfully assembling themselves together either in the day or nighttime, and all white persons... associating with freedmen.. on terms of equality... shall be deemed vagrants; and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined ... and imprisoned."
Mississippi Black Codes, 1865
Based on the information in the excerpt to the left, it can be concluded that the codes were meant..
• to help former slaves adjust to their new status as a free people.
• to continue the economic and social restrictions previously placed on slaves.
• to use the Freedmen's Bureau to aid in the economic and political progress of former slaves.
• to force newly freed slaves to migrate North.