All of the following statements about black codes are true except ________.

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Black Codes were state laws enacted after the Civil War designed to control the labor, behavior, and legal rights of African Americans, especially the newly freed population.

1) Relevant knowledge points and concepts
- Black Codes (primarily in Southern states during Reconstruction) restricted civil rights, labor contracts, movement, and legal recourse for African Americans.  
- They often prevented blacks from testifying against whites, from voting, serving on juries, or freely contracting labor.  
- Although most notorious in the South after 1865, Northern states had their own discriminatory “Black Laws” earlier and some restrictive practices persisted in the North.

2) Step-by-step reasoning
- Examine each option to determine whether it accurately describes Black Codes.  
- Option A: Many Southern Black Codes explicitly barred blacks from testifying against whites in court. This is historically accurate.  
- Option B: If Black Codes “applied only to slaves and not free blacks,” that would mean freedpeople were unaffected — but Black Codes were aimed squarely at controlling freedmen’s rights and labor. Thus this statement contradicts the historical purpose.  
- Option C: Black Codes denied African Americans many civil and political rights (travel, voting, jury service, property and contractual freedom), so saying they denied nearly all rights as citizens is accurate in spirit.  
- Option D: While Black Codes were concentrated in the South after the Civil War, the North had discriminatory “Black Laws” earlier and exclusionary practices; therefore it’s defensible to say similar restrictive laws existed in both regions.

3) Intermediate steps (logical checks)
- Identify target population of Black Codes → freedpeople and blacks generally (not only enslaved persons).  
- Compare each option to historical record → options A, C, and D align with documented restrictions; option B does not.

4) Why the correct answer is correct
- Option B is false because Black Codes were specifically designed to limit the rights and freedoms of freed African Americans; they did not apply only to slaves.

5) Why other options are incorrect (brief)
- A is true: many codes barred testimony by blacks against whites.  
- C is true: Black Codes stripped many civil rights.  
- D is supportable: while concentrated in the South, analogous discriminatory laws and practices existed in the North.

6) Conclusion
Therefore the incorrect statement (the exception) is “they applied only to slaves and not free blacks,” which matches the provided answer.

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