badge of slavery

badge of slavery
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. . 2000.

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