Wiki is wrong, the first recorded use of blacklist was in
The true peace-maker: laid forth in a sermon before his Majesty at Theobalds written by the Bishop of Norwich, Joseph Hall, in 1624:
"Ye secret oppressors,..ye kind drunkards, and who euer come within this blacke list of wickednesse."
The term probably derives from the process of blackballing which was first recorded in the 1500s. Blackballing was a process of selecting membership to clubs or societies or members votes on discipline: positive votes for prospective members would be white balls placed into a container, negative votes would be black balls. So in one respect there is the white/good and black/bad concept but the root concept of blackballing goes all the way back to Ancient Greece where the voting process for removing the citizenship of someone (usually a politician) used light shells and dark sea shells, later dark fragments of pottery on which the name of the person to be removed were etched.
The Greek name for these ballots,
ostrakon, forms the root of the English word
ostracize, which literally means to shun undesirable members of a society or group. Blackballing during ancient times often meant a complete stripping of all rights and privileges, plus the added indignity of being exiled from the community.