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    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...
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    colonial powers all had slightly different slave codes. French colonies, after 1685, had the Code Noir specifically for this purpose. The Spanish had some...
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    New Orleans, where they established sugarcane plantations. Louis XIV's Code Noir regulated the slave trade and institution in the colonies. It gave unparalleled...
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  • 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...
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    West Africa, gumbo has a Central African origin. The French slavery law, Code Noir, required that slaves receive baptism and Christian education, although...
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  • Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (French: Miraculous, les aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir; commonly abbreviated as Miraculous Ladybug or simply...
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    Louvre) and the stones outside Geosenge Town (Carnac stones). In the 1685 Code Noir, based on Jean-Baptiste Colbert's legislation,[clarification needed] slaves...
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    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...
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  • France, promulgated the first Code noir, regulating the treatment of slaves and maroons in the French Antilles. The Code Noir in particular declared that...
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    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...
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