The tignon law (also known as the chignon law [1]) was a 1786 law enacted by the Spanish Governor of Louisiana Esteban Rodríguez Miró that forced black women to wear a tignon headscarf. 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 ...

A tignon (also spelled and pronounced tiyon) is a type of headcovering—a large piece of material tied or wrapped around the head to form a kind of turban that somewhat resembles the West African gele.

2022年12月8日 · The tignon law was a 1786 law in Louisiana that forbade black women from going outdoors without wrapping their natural hair with a Tignon headscarf. During the 18th century, laws restricting the lives of black people were common, and …

2018年4月10日 · Instead, they were forced to wear a tignon (scarf or handkerchief) over their hair to show that they belonged to the slave class, whether they were enslaved or not.

Tignon were head scarves typically worn by enslaved women to keep their hair up while they worked. By requiring free Black women to wear the same hair covering, the governor was marking them as related to enslaved women rather than white women.

2019年3月25日 · These Black women followed the law by covering their hair but decorated their tignons with bright, beautiful colors, jewelry, and feathers. What was meant to suppress them made them even more stunning in appearance.

A Creole of color wearing a tignon, a required head-covering during the slave era that evolved into fashionable headress. By 1786, the increasing assertiveness of black New Orleanians and the growing numbers of free blacks alarmed Spanish officials.

2020年10月24日 · In an effort to quell the problem Governor Esteban Rodriguez Miro of Louisiana proclaimed that women of color must cover their hair with a knotted headdress and refrain from adorning it with ...

The tignon laws were passed in 1786 by Louisiana Governor Esteban Rodriguez Miró and aimed to prohibit “creole women of color from displaying excessive attention to dress in the streets of New Orleans.” The law stipulated that they must wear a tignon (a type of head covering) or scarf to cover their hair.

2019年7月4日 · Sometime in the late 18th century, black women and other women of colour were required by law to cover their hair with tignons as a measure to mark inferiority and ward off dear stares from white men.