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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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    West Africa, gumbo has a Central African origin. The French slavery law, Code Noir, required that slaves receive baptism and Christian education, although...
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    Geosenge Town (Carnac stones). In the French colonial empire, the Code Noir, a slave code drafted by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, stipulated that enslaved people...
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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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    issued a law called the Code Noir ("Black Code" in English) which regulated the interaction of whites (blancs) and blacks (noirs) in its colony of Louisiana...
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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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    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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    Film noir (/nwɑːr/; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize...
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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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  • the utmost suspicion." 40 acres and a mule Apartheid in South Africa Code Noir Grandfather clause Judicial aspects of race in the United States List...
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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 slaves, as...
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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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    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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    Colbert commissioned the beginning of a project that would become the Code Noir two years after his death in 1683. In addition, he founded France's merchant...
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    labor Slave codes Treatment interregional Human trafficking The Bahamas Canada Caribbean Barbados British Virgin Islands Trinidad Code Noir Latin America...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Noir (Japanese: ノワール, Hepburn: Nowāru) is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series created and written by Ryōe Tsukimura and produced by Victor Entertainment...
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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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    of Nantes, forcing thousands of Huguenots into exile and published the Code Noir providing the legal framework for slavery and expelling Jewish people...
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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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    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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  • labor Slave codes Treatment interregional Human trafficking The Bahamas Canada Caribbean Barbados British Virgin Islands Trinidad Code Noir Latin America...
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    the French king Louis XIV decreed the Code Noir, a regulation of the treatment of slaves. Although the Code Noir was established to protect the rights...
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    Slaves had virtually no rights, though the Code did enjoin masters to take care of the sick and old. The Code noir does not seem to have applied to Canada...
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