Black Code
[ blak-kohd ]
nounU.S. History.
(in the ex-Confederate states) any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of formerly enslaved African Americans in the period immediately following the Civil War.
Origin of Black Code
1First recorded in 1745–50
- Compare Jim Crow law.
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How to use Black Code in a sentence
Instead, many states passed laws widely known as the “black codes.”
In all other states the "Black Codes" adopted were certainly not reassuring to the friends of freedom.
The Negro | W.E.B. Du BoisCertainly nothing was enacted so bad as the "black codes" of a few years earlier, not to speak of the legislation under slavery.
The Negro and the Nation | George S. MerriamTo both the provisional Southern governments of 1865 replied with the so-called Black Codes.
A Social History of The American Negro | Benjamin Brawley
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