Black Code

[ blak-kohd ]

nounU.S. History.
  1. (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

1
First recorded in 1745–50

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