W. E. B. Du Bois and his students included a comprehensive hand written list of Georgia Black Codes (Laws affecting Blacks 1865-1900) as part of the Georgia Negro Exhibit in order to demonstrate how the law had specifically been used as a tool to discriminate against Black people . A total of 300 pages of legal material was tediously copied out by hand. Du Bois had included a similar compilation on laws affecting the Slave Trade in his classic 1896 The Suppression of the African Slave Trade.