France’s parliament votes to repeal slavery-era Black Code, with tears and history in the chamber

The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing the Code Noir, or Black Code, the ...
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The French Assembly votes in favor of repealing the 'Black Code' of slavery after 178 years

Slavery was abolished in the country in 1848, but these texts remained in the shadow of its law. The Black Code, a decree ...

What to know about Code Noir, a shocking French law that oversaw the slavery of 1.4 million Africans

France’s lower house has voted finally to scrub a foundational slavery-era edict from French law. The National Assembly voted ...

The forgotten story of abolition in revolutionary France – the first emancipation

On Aug. 21, 1789, just a month after the storming of the Bastille that launched the French Revolution, France’s new governing ...
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'A cheap way to clear one’s conscience': France repeals centuries-old slavery law, but reparations remain elusive

Lawmakers voted unanimously to strip the “Code Noir,” the texts that regulated slavery until it was abolished in 1848. Some ...
Anadolu Agency

French National Assembly votes to repeal colonial-era slavery decrees

France’s lower house of parliament voted unanimously Thursday to repeal centuries-old royal decrees that codified slavery in French colonies, marking a symbolic step in the country’s reckoning with ...

France overturns law classing people as property – 178 years after it abolished slavery

National assembly votes to repeal Code Noir under which enslaved people were beaten, raped and killed ...
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France's Macron dissolves National Assembly, calls for snap legislative elections after EU vote defeat

French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday he was dissolving the National Assembly and calling a snap legislative election after his party suffered a heavy defeat in elections for the European ...