Code Noir

(noun)

A decree originally passed by France's King Louis XIV in 1685, which defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire, restricted the activities of free black persons, forbade the exercise of any religion other than Roman Catholicism, and ordered all Jews out of France's colonies.

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Examples of Code Noir in the following topics:

  • Incorporating Louisiana

    • All slave societies enacted codes to regulate the behavior of enslaved peoples, and with the transfer of power from the French to the Americans, the old French Code Noir, or Black Law, was replaced by the more restrictive Slave Laws of the Deep South.

  • In the South: The Haitian Revolution

    • Meanwhile, the enslaved population observed this rapid change of events from 1789-1791, listening to the circulation of revolutionary discourse and rumors that the National Assembly was going to free them (or add more protections into the Code Noir to relax their work obligations and restrain their masters' punishment rights).

  • The Sun-King and Authoritarianism

    • Louis also attempted to uniform regulation of civil procedure throughout legally irregular France by issuing a comprehensive legal code, the 'Grande Ordonnance de Procédure Civile' of 1667, also known as the Code Louis.
    • The Code Louis played an important part in French legal history as the basis for the Napoleonic code, itself the origin of many modern legal codes.
    • One of Louis's most infamous decrees was the Grande Ordonnance sur les Colonies of 1685, also known as the Code Noir ("black code").

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    • All slave societies enacted codes to regulate the behavior of enslaved peoples, and with the transfer of power from the French to the Americans, the old French Code Noir, or Black Law, was replaced by the more restrictive Slave Laws of the Deep South.

  • Meeting In Person (Conferences, Hackfests, Code-a-Thons, Code Sprints, Retreats)

  • The Napoleonic Code

  • Codes of Conduct

    • Organizations adopt codes of conduct to guide employees' actions and decisions.
    • There are three types of ethical codes: codes of business ethics, codes of conduct for employees, and codes of professional practice.
    • A code of business ethics often focuses on social issues.
    • A code of practice is adopted to regulate a particular profession.
    • Similarly, behavior in organizational settings may be guided by organizational codes of conduct.

  • Kongo

    • The Bakongo, or the Kongo people (Kongo: "hunters"), also referred to as the Congolese, are a Bantu ethnic group who live along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Pointe-Noire (Congo Brazzaville) to Luanda, Angola.

  • Nigerian Art Post-Independence

    • The term was first used in its present sense by Césaire, in the third issue of L'Étudiant noir, a magazine which he had started in Paris with fellow students Léopold Senghor and Léon Damas, as well as Gilbert Gratiant, Leonard Sainville, Louis T.
    • L'Étudiant noir also includes Césaire's first published work, Conscience Raciale et Révolution Sociale with the heading "Les Idées" and the rubric "Négreries", which is notable for its disavowal of assimilation as a valid strategy for resistance and for its use of the word nègre as a positive term.

  • Slave Codes

    • Slave codes in the Northern colonies were less harsh than slave codes in the Southern colonies, but contained many similar provisions.
    • The slave codes of the tobacco colonies (Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia) were modeled on the Virginia code established in 1667.
    • South Carolina established its slave code in 1712, with the following provisions:
    • The district’s official printed slave code was issued only a month beforehand.
    • Explain the purpose of slave codes and how they were implemented throughout the United States