In response to the arrest of a deputy, Prime Minister François Bayrou promised final May to formally repeal the black code, which regulated slavery within the French colonies. One hundred and seventy-seven years after the abolition of slavery, this textual content, the primary model of which dates again to 1685, is likely one of the “legislative fossils”.
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Furniture, corporal punishment: what does the black code that has by no means been abolished? | EUROtoday
