The Code noir (French pronunciation: [kɔd nwaʁ], Black code) was a decree passed by King Louis XIV of France in 1685 defining the conditions of slavery...

colonial powers all had slightly different slave codes. French colonies, after 1685, had the Code Noir specifically for this purpose. The Spanish had some...

King Louis XIV passed the decree known as Code Noir (French pronunciation: [kɔd nwaʁ], Black Code). The code defined the conditions of slavery in the French...

New Orleans, where they established sugarcane plantations. Louis XIV's Code Noir regulated the slave trade and institution in the colonies. It gave unparalleled...

Bambara slaves were stereotyped as more passive. The French slavery law, Code Noir, required that slaves receive baptism and Christian education, although...

Film noir (/nwɑːr/; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize...

Geosenge Town (Carnac stones). In the French colonial empire, the Code Noir, a slave code drafted by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, stipulated that enslaved people...

France, promulgated the first Code noir, regulating the treatment of slaves and maroons in the French Antilles. The Code Noir in particular declared that...

slave trade and other colonial rules were regulated by Louis XIV's 1689 Code Noir. From its very outset, Western colonialism was operated as a joint public-private...

imported. Implemented in colonial Louisiana in 1724, Louis XIV of France's Code Noir regulated the slave trade and the institution of slavery in the French...