Once a Grenadier, always a Grenadier. The Grenadier Guards is one of oldest and most iconic regiments in the British Army. Whether they are fighting on the front line or guarding a Royal Palace, members of the Regiment are renowned for their determination, loyalty and grit.
In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans ' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. Black Codes were part of a larger pattern of Southern whites trying to suppress the new freedom of emancipated African American slaves, the freedmen.
Black Codes were a series of laws passed after the completion of the U.S. Civil War in the 1860s. They were passed by the governments of several states in the southern United States as a means of keeping freed slaves from gaining rights equal to those of white men. These laws had their origins in the Slave Codes that existed before the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ended slavery in the U.S.