How did racial caste reinvent itself after Emancipation?

Question

How did racial caste reinvent itself after Emancipation?

Answer 1

During the Reconstruction period racial caste reinvented it self through various political and economic means. Politically there were such laws as black codes, Jim Crow Laws, and voting rights restrictions (poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause) to limit the rights of freedmen. Economically, there was such practices as sharecropping, tenant farming, and the absence of land redistribution that left African Americans at a disadvantage.