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The Guardian : France votes to end slavery-era law which classed people as property
France's historical governance framed as morally illegitimate due to colonial slavery
The article emphasizes France's role in maintaining the Code Noir long after abolition and highlights President Macron's statement that silence on the law has become 'a form of offence', implying institutional moral failure.
“The silence, even the indifference, that we have maintained for nearly two centuries towards this Code Noir is no longer an oversight. It has become a form of offence”
ABC News : What to know about Code Noir, a shocking French law that oversaw the slavery of …
portraying the French state as historically complicit in systemic oppression
The article emphasizes France’s role in maintaining a brutal slave system and notes that the law was never formally repealed until now, implying long-term institutional neglect.
“Code Noir became toothless when France abolished slavery in 1848, but no one ever formally struck it from the books.”