(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . 618: France: Le Code Noir [The Black Code] [1] ['Greg Dworkin', 'Crimson Quillfeather'] Date: 2026-05-30 This is what President Macron is trying to undo:- Origin: Édit du Roi, Touchant la Police des Isles de l’Amérique Française (Paris, May 6th 1687), 28–58 It can be read in English here: https://revolution.chnm.org/d/335/ Translation: Edict of the King, Affecting the Police of the Isles of French America. The King? Louis XIV of France, [of course, the Sun King, not the one who misplaced his head.] It was adapted over the years. To the Nouveau Code Noir [The New Black Code], January 8th, 1840, a discussion can be found here: https://www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr/en/documentaires/slavery/the-code-noir/the-code-noir-legal-document-regulating-relations-between-masters-and-slaves/ It is not a subject taught to pre-university students, and only then in relevant studies. It is one of the most depressing and disgusting pieces of legislation ever created and recorded. As for Reparations/Restitutions, which are so easily calculated, as all the payments made to every slave owner were recorded and kept to cover their “losses”. I’ll give a few examples from the texts: First came anti-Semitism Article I. We desire and we expect that the Edict of 23 April 1615 of the late King, our most honored lord and father who remains glorious in our memory, be executed in our islands. This accomplished, we enjoin all of our officers to chase from our islands all the Jews who have established residence there. As with all declared enemies of Christianity, we command them to be gone within three months of the day of issuance of the present [order], at the risk of confiscation of their persons and their goods. The Christianity of which he speaks is obviously Catholicism; it was forbidden for slaves to hear about Protestantism. Article II. All slaves that shall be in our islands shall be baptized and instructed in the Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Faith. We enjoin the inhabitants who shall purchase newly-arrived Negroes to inform the Governor and Intendant of said islands of this fact within no more that eight days, or risk being fined an arbitrary amount. They shall give the necessary orders to have them instructed and baptized within a suitable amount of time. We forbid any religion other than the Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Faith from being practiced in public. Article IV. No persons assigned to positions of authority over Negroes shall be other than a member of the Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Faith, and the master who assigned these persons shall risk having said Negroes confiscated, and arbitrary punishment levied against the persons who accepted said position of authority. Article XXVII. Slaves who are infirm due to age, sickness or other reason, whether the sickness is curable or not, shall be nourished and cared for by their masters. In the case that they be abandoned, said slaves shall be awarded to the hospital, to which their master shall be required to pay six sols per day for the care and feeding of each slav Article XXXIII. The slave who has struck his master in the face or has drawn blood, or has similarly struck the wife of his master, his mistress, or their children, shall be punished by death. . . . Of course, all of these articles are given in good faith. Ah, but it was a different time, I’ve heard, and some misconceptions about slavery were promoted and twisted by us lefties. Yep, Uh Huh. I think I have heard most of the arguments about how we bear no responsibility for the past. I wonder where some of our national wealth came from; it’s a total fucking mystery. Anyway, I wrote this short diary as a reference to those who knew not, A Morning Muse ~A [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/30/800047802/community/618-france-le-code-noir-the-black-code/ Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/