Code Noir (involvement in drafting)

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Code Noir was a 17th-century French royal decree that regulated slavery and the treatment of enslaved people in the French colonial empire.

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instanceOf French royal decree
legal code
slave code
appliesTo French Caribbean colonies
French colonial empire
enslaved people
slave owners
country Kingdom of France
dateOfIssue 1685
draftingContinuedUnder Seignelay
draftingInfluencedBy Jean-Baptiste Colbert
draftingSupervisedBy Jean-Baptiste Colbert
field colonial law
slave law
hasInfluenceOn later French colonial legislation on slavery
hasPart articles on corporal punishment
articles on expulsion of Jews from French colonies
articles on food and clothing rations
articles on manumission procedures
articles on prohibition of other religions for enslaved people
articles on religious conversion to Catholicism
articles on status of children born to enslaved mothers
historicalImpact contributed to institutionalization of racial slavery in the French Atlantic world
inForceIn French Guiana
Guadeloupe
French colonial Louisiana
surface form: Louisiana (French colony)

Martinique
Réunion
French colony of Saint-Domingue
surface form: Saint-Domingue
language French
legalEffect codified slavery in French colonies
reinforced racial hierarchy in French colonies
restricted rights of free people of color
legalStatus royal ordinance
promulgatedBy Louis XIV of France
regulates family life of enslaved people
inheritance involving enslaved people
manumission
marriage of enslaved people
punishments for enslaved people
religious practice of enslaved people
slavery
status of free people of color
treatment of enslaved people
relatedTo Atlantic slave trade
French colonialism
timePeriod Ancien Régime

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Jean-Baptiste Colbert notableWork Code Noir (involvement in drafting)