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noun

  • The collection of statutes enacted in the American colonies and states before the Civil War that defined enslaved people as property and granted owners near-absolute power over them.

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The Utah and New Mexico territories passed slave codes that explicitly permitted slavery of both Black and Native Americans.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2026

Northern personal liberty laws—attempts to grant fugitives trial by jury and prevent the kidnapping of free blacks into slavery—challenged the extraterritoriality of southern slave codes and the fugitive slave clause of the Constitution.

From Time • Jun. 17, 2016

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Possible Synonyms

  • servile legislation
  • bondage laws
  • slave statutes

Possible Antonyms

  • manumission laws
  • emancipation laws
  • abolition acts
  • civil rights acts

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