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The Southern States had responded to this Act of National authority by enacting a series of laws which really introduced, as has already been shown, a new, offensive and most oppressive form of servitude.
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Blaine discusses the Southern States' response to the Thirteenth Amendment, which involved enacting oppressive laws against freedmen.
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