The Prime Minister, François Bayrou, arrested on Tuesday May 13, within the National Assembly, by the president of the Liberté, unbiased, abroad group and territories (Liot), Laurent Bânifous, promised a regulation to repeal “Formally” The black code.
Historian of regulation and establishments on the University of Guadeloupe, Jean-François Niort notably wrote The Black Code: acquired concepts on a symbolic textual content (Le Cavalier Bleu, 2015) and From black code to chlordecone (Editions European University, 2016).
What are the character and scope of the black code of 1685 which had made slaves “movable property” in “the islands of French America”?
The black code is a royal order of 1685 developed by [le ministre de Louis XIV Jean-Baptiste] Colbert [1619-1683] and promulgated by Louis XIV, meant to manage the authorized standing of slaves, initially within the Antilles. It just isn’t a textual content that invents the regulation of slavery, as a result of 80 % of those guidelines have been already developed, regionally. The landowners, who made the regulation at residence, continued to take action.
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