On March 16, 1685, in Versailles, Louis XIV signs 60 articles that will transform a man into furniture. Article 44: “We declare that slaves are furniture.” For 341 years, this text, the Code Noir, will organize the most profitable sugar colonial system in history. Slavery will be abolished in 1848, but the text that made it possible will never be repealed. It will remain, like a legal ghost, in the French archives until 2026.<\/p>
It took three faces to end this.<\/i><\/p>
CHRISTIANE TAUBIRA (2001): NAMING<\/strong><\/p> Dep
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