Black Code

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Black Code

noun U.S. History. (in the ex-Confederate states)
any code of law that defined and especially limited therights of former slaves after the Civil War.
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Black Code is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Main Entry:  black code
Part of Speech:  n
Definition:  any code or body of laws that limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War but before the abolition of slavery
Example:  The Jim Crow Law is an example of black code.
Usage:  US
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Word Origin & History

black code
local or state legal restrictions on black people, free or slave; attested by 1840, Amer.Eng., though the thing itself is much older; from black + code.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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