France symbolically abolishes the Black Code, 178 years after slavery's end

The National Assembly unanimously approved the repeal of the Black Code on Thursday, May 28, the founding text of the French colonial slave regime.

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This repeal comes 178 years after slavery's official abolition in mainland France in 1848.

While purely symbolic, the gesture acknowledges the historically intolerable nature of this legal code and represents a break with colonial memory.

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