A Assembleia Nacional francesa revogou oficialmente o Code noir, um texto do século XVII que regulava a escravatura nas colónias francesas e equiparava um ser humano a um bem móvel.

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.