Encyclopedia Dubuque
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BLACK CODE. In the years before the [[CIVIL WAR ], many Iowans did not feel AFRICAN AMERICANS should be treated the same as whites. Laws were passed to keep African Americans from settling here.
Iowa legislators in 1838 and 1840 passed laws known as Iowa's Black Code. One law stated that no black person could come into the state without a certificate of freedom proving that the person was not a runaway slave. Another law stated blacks and whites could not marry each other. Black children could not attend public schools and black men could not serve in the state legislature.
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Schwieder, Dorothy; Morain, Thomas; Nielsen, Lynn. Iowa--Past to Present. Ames: Iowa State Press, 2002, p. 121