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...
The Code Noir turned human beings into chattel, allowing them to be worked, beaten, sold, raped, and killed. The realization that France never formally did away with it has left many aghast. In the National Assembly, the debate turned raw. Steevy Gus... [1674 chars]