Code Noir
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| A decree passed by France's King Louis XIV in 1685 ordering all Jews out of France's colonies, forbidding the exercise of any religion other than Roman Catholicism, restricting the activities of free Negroes and defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. — Excerpted from Code Noir on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
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