Definition of suppression. 1 : an act or instance of suppressing : the state of being suppressed.
When most people think of Jim Crow they think of laws (not the Jim Crow etiquette) which excluded blacks from public transport and facilities, juries, jobs, and neighborhoods. The passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution had granted blacks the same legal protections as whites.im Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s.
Congress did not deliver, but also didn't take any affirmative action against the then-present slavery when it came to their attention. This reduced the Ordinance's slavery ban to a fairly weak ban on taking more slaves into the territory. It gets worse. The slavery ban is actually a last-minute addition to the Northwest Ordinance. The closer you look at the law and its enforcement, the harder it is to come up with a clear idea of just what the men who wrote it and voted it through really thought they were doing. First off, the slavery section was adopted without debate. Thus we don't have clear explications of what the law meant to the legislators in the moment. The Lower South politicians who voted for the law almost certainly did not think of it as an antislavery measure, even remotely, or they'd have voted otherwise.