Tignon law

The tignon law (also known as the chignon law) was a 1786 law enacted by the Spanish Governor of Louisiana Esteban Rodríguez Miró that forced black women to wear a tignon headscarf. Though the laws governing slavery were not in use, black women still were denied privileges and rights that were given to those that were white; for example, such restrictions on their appearance solely controlling their identity.[1] The law was intended to halt plaçage unions and tie freed black women to those who were enslaved, but the women who followed the law have been described as turning the headdress into a "mark of distinction".

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