French lawmakers are set to vote on Thursday to repeal the Code Noir, a law that regulated slavery in the French colonies which was never formally repealed even after the abolition of slavery in 1848.…

French lawmakers in the lower house of parliament on Thursday adopted a bill to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people across France’s colonies, in a symbolic and…

France's parliament is moving to repeal a slavery law called Code Noir that has remained quietly in place for nearly two centuries after slavery was abolished.