| 单词 | black code |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack code black code n. chiefly U.S. (now historical) any of various legal codes applied to black people; esp. each of the bodies of laws restricting the civil rights and liberties of black people that were enacted in the Southern United States following the Civil War.Quot. 1749 refers to the 1685 edict of Louis XIV of France later known as the Code Noir [after French code noir (1723 or earlier)] . ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > relating to ethnic minorities Fleming-lauche?c1629 black code1749 Jew Bill1753 Nuremberg Laws1937 Group Area1950 1749 M. Postlethwayt Diss. Universal Dict. Trade 22 The ordinance commonly called in the French islands of America, The Black Code, it containing the laws to be observed in respect to negroes. 1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 30 July 2/1 A black man..[will] be tried before Judge Preval, under the Black Code. 1876 Congress. Rec. 9 Aug. 5347/2 I hold in my hand the laws of the Legislature of South Carolina passed in the session of 1865–'66... Among the very first acts that they passed was the act which is known all over this country and all over the world as the ‘black code’ of South Carolina, a code that should disgrace every one of its authors. 1960 H. Carter in First Person Rural (1963) xvi. 154 South Africa's system of residential and occupational passes and other onerous restrictions upon the African's movements are little different from the Black Codes with which the fearful South of Reconstruction enmeshed the Negro freedman. 1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 6 Nov. 54/1 White Southerners set out to restore a racial oligarchy, bulwarked by the notorious ‘Black Codes’ that were close to slavery. < as lemmas |
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