France’s lower house has voted finally to scrub a foundational slavery-era edict from French law. The National Assembly voted ...

On Thursday, the lower house of parliament voted to wipe it from French law. The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing Code Noir, or Black Code, the 1685 ...

On Aug. 21, 1789, just a month after the storming of the Bastille that launched the French Revolution, France’s new governing body, the National Assembly, approved the first article of its historic ...

As African leaders are demanding that former colonisers compensate for the wealth and power built through slavery, the French ...

In May 2025, François Bayrou, then the prime minister of France, fielded an unusual question from a member of Parliament: Why hadn’t France formally revoked the Code Noir, the ...

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National assembly votes to repeal Code Noir under which enslaved people were beaten, raped and killed ...

Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ...

Brown Confronts Slavery, Second in a series. Though the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice was expected to submit its report to President Ruth Simmons this spring, it is unclear when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Luxury cruise liners, like this docked at Falmouth, Jamaica, will take tourists to learn about a dark side in the history of the ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans were ...