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“Treat Others The Way You Want To Be Treated.”

Trata a los demás de la manera en que quieres que te traten.

Traitez les autres comme vous voulez être traité.

以您希望被對待的方式對待他人.

ሌሎችን መያዝ የምትፈልገውን መንገድ ተያዝ.

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Black History Facts

  • Recommended that African-Americans be socially excluded

  • Authorized branding of an “R” in the face runaway slaves.

  • Barred African-Americans from military service

  • Enactment of the first anti-interracial marriage statues

  • Established codes of conduct for slaves and slave holders

  • Barred African-Americans from all trades

  • Prescribed banishment for any white woman marrying an African-American man.

  • Criminalized interracial marriages.

  • Prescribed execution for recaptured runaway slaves.

  • Prohibited African-Americans from holding or assuming any public office

  • Rewarded slaves with freedom for informing on other slaves

  • Criminalized runaway slaves to protect owners’ investment

  • Forbade and criminalized African-Americans and white marriages

  • Forbade marriage between African-American men and white women

  • Condemned African-Americans for sexual acts with whites

  • Criminalized interracial marriages

  • Impeded African-Americans from meeting or having a sense of community

  • Forbade African-Americans from keeping weapons

  • Forbade slaves from raising or owning farm animals

  • Allowed sale or execution of slaves attempting to flee

  • Forbade freeing slaves except for meritorious service

  • Forbade African-Americans from serving in the militia

  • Congress declares US a white nation

  • Restricted enrollment in peace time to whites only

  • Discouraged slaves from running away; protected planters’ invested capital

  • Forbade free African-Americans from entering the state

  • Prohibited African-Americans from raising and selling agricultural products

  • Enacted “Black Laws” that restricted African-Americans’ movements

  • Forbade African-Americans from selling tobacco or corn without license

  • Forbade immigration for free African-American males over 15 years old

  • Limited residence of entering free African-Americans to two weeks

  • Excluded African-Americans from carrying US mail

  • Restricted voting rights to whites only

  • Forbade migration of African-Americans; levied $10 per week fine

  • Made conspiracy among slaves a capital offense

  • Exacted a $1.50 tax on African-Americans who were forbidden to vote

  • Prohibited free African-Americans from entering state

  • Required free African-Americans to pay tax so whites could vote

  • Provided that no African-American could testify against a white person

  • Disenfranchised African-American voters

  • Forbade assembling or teaching slaves to read or write

  • Prohibited free African-Americans from entering the state

  • Required African-Americans to register annually and post bond

  • Forbade entry of free African-Americans; violators penalized $500

  • Prohibited African-Americans driving or owning hacks, carts, and drays

  • Restricted voting to whites

  • Forbade marriages between African-Americans and whites

  • Provided fine and imprisonment for teaching an African-American to read

  • Required all free African-Americans to leave the state within 60 days

  • Forbade African-Americans employment in printing and entertainment

  • Taxed African-Americans; forbade voting or attending school

  • Required all African-Americans traders and peddlers to be licensed

  • Free African-Americans were denied any kind of a business license

  • Required African-Americans to register in order to work and post bond

  • Forbade free African-Americans to preach except with permission

  • Fined and flogged whites for teaching African-Americans to read or write

  • Prohibited African-Americans from working in reading or writing jobs

  • Provided fines and whippings for teaching African-Americans

  • No free person of color could obtain a license

  • Required the registration and bonding of all free African-Americans

  • Prohibited employing African-Americans in drug stores

  • Prohibited African-Americans from profit-making activities

  • Required African-Americans to be off the streets by a certain hour

  • Forbade African-Americans who had gone North to school to return

  • Declared void all interracial marriages to 3rd generation

  • Forbade African-Americans and whites from looking out the same windows

  • Felonied African-Americans demanding or receiving abolition newspapers

  • Placed a tax on all employed African-American artisans

  • African-Americans from playing games with whites

  • Prohibited contracts with African-American mechanics

  • Provided imprisonment for inciting African-Americans to rebel

  • Prohibited teaching African-Americans to read or write

  • Provided death penalty for advising African-Americans to rebel

  • Stronger enforcement provisions

  • Imposed annual $5 per capita tax on all free African-Americans

  • Levied tax on all free African-Americans

  • Forbade selling poisonous drugs to African-Americans

  • US Supreme Court dehumanized and disenfranchised African-Americans

  • Forbade free African-Americans and salves from boating on the Potomac

  • Deprived African-Americans of right to vote and hold public office

  • US Supreme Court challenged the constitutionality of the law

  • Deprived African-Americans of the right to vote in Louisiana