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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 ...
France is poised to repeal the Code Noir, a historic law governing slavery, revealing ongoing issues of colonial legacy and ...
Inside the emotional parliamentary fight to erase a brutal slavery decree-and why critics say France's reckoning is still ...
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What to know about Code Noir, a shocking French law that oversaw the slavery of 1.4 million Africans
France’s powerful lower house voted finally to scrub a fundamental slavery-era edict from French law on Thursday. After the ...
PARIS (AP) — For nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property has remained quietly on the books. On Thursday, the lower house of ...
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