Postemancipation

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    After the Emancipation Proclamation. US, not-comparable

    "…coal companies conspired with the prisons, court systems, and governments in each of those states to implement one of the more egregious forms of racial exploitation imposed on postemancipation blacks."

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"…coal companies conspired with the prisons, court systems, and governments in each of those states to implement one of the more egregious forms of racial exploitation imposed on postemancipation blacks."

Etymology

From post- + emancipation.

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