The unanimous vote closes a legal loophole that survived the 1865 abolition of slavery in France.
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French lawmakers voted on Thursday to repeal the Code Noir, a law that regulated slavery in the French colonies that was never…
France’s National Assembly unanimously repeals the slavery-era Code Noir, confronting a brutal colonial legacy that still shapes…
France abolished slavery in 1848, but the Code Noir was never formally eliminated as a law. The vote is seen as a significant…
Members of the lower house of the French parliament unanimously voted to abolish a series of royal edicts known as the "Code…
French lawmakers unanimously repeal the 1685 Code Noir nearly two centuries after slavery was abolished, in a symbolic reckoning…
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