- Slave codes: outlined the rights of slaves and the acceptable treatments of slaves. 

- slaves cannot own guns

-education of slaves is prohibited

-slaves could not assemble without a white person present.

-does not give African Americans the rights that white peoples have by putting limits on their actions and giving them certain laws that white people do not need to follow themselves.

- Fugitive slave laws

- There were two fugitive slaves acts passed by the congress (1793, 1850)

- If run away slaves are caught, they must be returned to their owner.

- The north didn't want to pass these laws, but they had to in order to be in agreement with the south

Establish Justice