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    The Code noir (French pronunciation: [kɔd nwaʁ], Black code) was a decree passed by King Louis XIV of France in 1685 defining the conditions of slavery...
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    colonial powers all had slightly different slave codes. French colonies, after 1685, had the Code Noir specifically for this purpose. The Spanish had some...
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  • King Louis XIV passed the decree known as Code Noir (French pronunciation: [kɔd nwaʁ], Black Code). The code defined the conditions of slavery in the French...
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    New Orleans, where they established sugarcane plantations. Louis XIV's Code Noir regulated the slave trade and institution in the colonies. It gave unparalleled...
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    Bambara slaves were stereotyped as more passive. The French slavery law, Code Noir, required that slaves receive baptism and Christian education, although...
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    Cartethyia is named "Fleurdelys". In the French colonial empire, the Code Noir, a slave code drafted by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, stipulated that enslaved people...
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  • slave trade and other colonial rules were regulated by Louis XIV's 1689 Code Noir. From its very outset, Western colonialism was operated as a joint public-private...
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  • France, promulgated the first Code noir, regulating the treatment of slaves and maroons in the French Antilles. The Code Noir in particular declared that...
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    trade was governed by the French Code Noir, and later by its Spanish equivalent the Código Negro. As written, the Code Noir gave specific rights to slaves...
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    Film noir (/nwɑːr/; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a style of Hollywood crime dramas that emphasizes cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are...
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    Colbert commissioned the beginning of a project that would become the Code Noir in 1685, two years after his death. In addition, he founded France's merchant...
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  • peruano Mario Vargas Llosa. Tenía 89 años (in Spanish) "Canisia Lubrin wins Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for ‘Code Noir’". Toronto Star, May 1, 2025....
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    States through Roc Books. The novels in this series include Nylon Angel, Code Noir, and Crash Deluxe and have been adapted into a role-playing game. Her...
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    the slaves was regulated by the Code Noir. The slaves often had a degree of autonomy beyond that suggested by the code. Initially, during public holidays...
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    imported. Implemented in colonial Louisiana in 1724, Louis XIV of France's Code Noir regulated the slave trade and the institution of slavery in the French...
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    government and building their invisible communities under the Code Noir. The French created the Code Noir in 1724 to establish rules for treatment of enslaved...
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    Code Noir also conferred affranchis (ex-slaves) full citizenship and gave complete civil equality with other French subjects. Saint Domingue's Code Noir...
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    religions. Article III in the Code Noir states: "We forbid any public exercise of any religion other than Catholic." The Code Noir and other slave laws resulted...
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  • Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (French: Miraculous, les aventures de Ladybug et Chat Noir; commonly abbreviated as Miraculous Ladybug or simply...
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    The pieds-noirs (French: [pje nwaʁ]; lit. 'black feet'; sg.: pied-noir) are an ethno-cultural group of people of French and other European descent who...
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  • liberty and justice. For example, many slaves were able to use the French Code Noir marriage provision and claim independence. There was no fine line between...
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  • to incapacitate combatants, prisoners and runaway slaves. The French Code Noir (1685) prescribed hamstringing as the punishment for slaves caught escaping...
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  • Colonial Empire's Caribbean territories by Louis XIV's decree in the Code Noir. 1701–1714 War of the Spanish Succession. After the war, Jews of Austrian...
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    Caribbean colonies) work on sugar, indigo and tobacco plantations. The 1685 Code Noir set the pattern for policing slavery in the West Indies. It required that...
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  • of Quantity CD-R 2013 The Gethsemane Option Metropolis Records CD 2013 Code Noir Beta-lactam Ring Records CD 2013 The Curse of Marie Antoinette Rustblade...
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    came to Mobile worked in the French West Indies. In 1724, the Code Noir, a slave code based on Roman laws, was instituted in French colonies which allowed...
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  • Griffin Poetry Prize. In 2024, Lubrin published her first book of fiction, Code Noir, published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada. The book was the winner of the 2025...
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    slave codes treatment interregional proslavery sexual slavery The Bahamas Canada Caribbean Barbados British Virgin Islands Trinidad Code Noir Latin America...
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  • (Justin Time, 1999) Loudon, Christopher (March 31, 2017). "Carmen Lundy: Code Noir (Afrasia) - JazzTimes". JazzTimes. Retrieved July 7, 2018. Carmen Lundy...
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  • came to Mobile worked in the French West Indies. In 1724, the Code Noir, a slave code based on Roman laws, was instituted in French colonies which allowed...
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