What does W. E.B. Dubois mean when he says that the Black Codes were an attempt "on the part of southern states to make negroes slaves in everything but name?"

He means that the slave owners didn't want to acknowledge slaces as people , but thery did have a name, the Black laws were ment to govern the conduct of African Americans.

Explanation:

"a shortage of traditional labor created new opportunities in the workplace. a major cause of the internment of japanese americans during world war ii was. racial prejudice. in the early 1940's, the "destroyers-for-military-bases deal" with great britain and the lend-lease act were evidence that the united states."