[Jed Eckert]

Those Black Codes were enacted before Reconstruction and were, in fact, one of the reasons the Radical Republicans used for implementing it. So if you're looking for others to blame you'll have to try again

And we all know how well treated blacks were in most of the North post war:

EXCLUSION of FREE BLACKS

[rockrr]

They weren’t treated very well. But they were treated better than the unified Jim Crow laws of the south.

[DoodleDawg]

And we all know how well treated blacks were in most of the North post war:

But we're talking about the South and all those thousands and thousands of stalwart Black men who fought for her freedom, or so the story goes. And the way you all rewarded them for their courage and loyalty. Not.

And in your article, just about all the examples were pre-war and not post war. But if your point is that there was just a whole lot of bigotry towards blacks in the North then I certainly am not disputing that. What I disagree with is your apparent belief that it was only in the North.