badge of slavery

badge of slavery definition - legal

n

  1. A legal disability imposed on a slave, such as the inability to vote, own property, or enter into a contract.
  2. Any visible trace of slavery, such as racial discrimination in public education.
  3. Any public or private act of racial discrimination that Congress can prohibit under the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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