It attracted a lot of unwanted attention and so the Black Codes had to be implemented. The Mississippi Black Codes document of 1865 was presented to us by Walter L. Fleming, who was a historian who dealt with the South and specifically the Reconstruction era. It was aimed at future historians who studied this era. It almost lays 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 like at that time. On the other hand, there were parts of the government's amendments that I found very unethical given my current state of mind. I realize those times were different, but it still made me sick to my stomach that “freedmen, free negroes, and mulattoes” were treated very differently from the way white people were treated. The author breaks down the documents into different sections of the reconstruction plan. First, he begins by talking about vagrant laws, which stated that newly emancipated citizens had special laws that affected them. They were treated like animals forced to work if they did not own property. If they couldn't keep a job, the second