<P> Southern Whites also perceived Black vagrancy as a sudden and dangerous social problem . </P> <P> Preexisting White American belief of Black inferiority informed post-war attitudes and white racial dominance continued to be culturally embedded; whites believed both that Black people were destined for servitude and that they would not work unless physically compelled . For their part, free Blacks no longer felt compelled to show conspicuous deference to White people . The enslaved also strove to create a semi-autonomous social world, removed from the plantation and the gaze of the slave owner . The racial divisions which slavery had created immediately became more obvious . Blacks also bore the brunt of Southern anger over defeat in the War . </P> <P> Legislation on the status of freedpeople was often mandated by constitutional conventions held in 1865 . Mississippi, South Carolina, and Georgia all included language in their new state constitutions which instructed the legislature to "guard them and the State against any evils that may arise from their sudden emancipation". The Florida convention of October 1865 included a vagrancy ordinance that was in effect until process Black Codes could be passed through the regular legislative process . </P> <P> Black Codes restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces . A central element of the Black Codes were vagrancy laws . States criminalized men who were out of work, or who were not working at a job whites recognized . Failure to pay a certain tax, or to comply with other laws, could also be construed as vagrancy . </P>

When were these black codes written who do you think wrote these laws