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...

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

West Africa, gumbo has a Central African origin. The French slavery law, Code Noir, required that slaves receive baptism and Christian education, although...

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (French: Miraculous, les aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir; commonly abbreviated as Miraculous Ladybug or simply...

issued a law called the Code Noir ("Black Code" in English) which regulated the interaction of whites (blancs) and blacks (noirs) in its colony of Louisiana...

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

The pieds-noirs (French: [pje nwaʁ]; lit. 'Black Feet'; sg.: Pied-Noir) are an ethno-cultural group of people of French and other European descent who...