{"id":992836,"date":"2026-05-29T19:37:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/992836\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:37:01","slug":"whats-next-after-scrapping-the-black-code-in-france-slavery-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/992836\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s next after scrapping the \u2018Black Code\u2019 in France? | Slavery News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French MPs vote to repeal law that governed slavery in colonies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The \u201cCode Noir\u201d (or Black Code) is a law many were shocked to discover still existed in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It dates back 400 years and outlines the rules that governed slavery in French Caribbean colonies \u2013 rules that allowed slave owners to treat their labourers as property that could be bought, sold and inherited; rules that permitted cruel punishment such as beatings \u2013 often to death \u2013 and hangings.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This week, French MPs voted unanimously to repeal the legislation. But is that enough?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And does it offer reparatory justice to the descendants of the victims of slavery?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Tom McRae<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liliane Umubyeyi \u2013 Cofounder and executive director of the African Futures Lab<\/p>\n<p>Marlene Daut \u2013 Professor of French and African diaspora studies at Yale University<\/p>\n<p>Anne Giudicelli \u2013 Global relations specialist and former security analyst for the French Foreign Office<\/p>\n<p>Published On 29 May 202629 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share-nodes<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French MPs vote to repeal law that governed slavery in colonies. The \u201cCode Noir\u201d (or Black Code) is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":992837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2740,2000,299,36,3274,12,10471,39124,10472],"class_list":["post-992836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-africa","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-latin-america","tag-news","tag-show-types","tag-slavery","tag-tv-shows"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116659555301672852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}