Spain enacted a law on enfranchisement, the first of three Spanish laws that Ardouin names as the source of the liberal provisions of the Code noir.
Spain enacted the second of the three laws on enfranchisement that Ardouin names as models for the Code noir.
Columbus enters the Môle-Saint-Nicolas a second time, four days before his discovery of Jamaica.
Some settlers of the Leeward Islands have asked permission to take their nègres to Cayenne, where they wish to establish themselves. I reported this to the King, and His Majesty…
Louis, etc. To our beloved and faithful Conseillers, the People holding our Chambre des Comptes at Paris: Greeting. The former Directors of the Compagnie Royale du Sénégal and coast of…
LOUIS, &c. The late King, our most honored Lord and Great-Grandfather, had, by his Letters Patent in the form of an Edict, of March 1685, established a law and fixed…
The Agent of the Compagnie des Indes has informed it that two ships have been fitted out in this island for the coast of Guinea, on permissions given by M.…
THE KING does not wish, Monsieur, that the Lettres de Noblesse of the sieurs....... be examined or received, since they have married mulâtresses, nor that you permit any Judgment to…
This Ordinance expressly enjoins the settlers to plant and cultivate food crops to ensure the feeding of their enslaved people; and it orders the Officers of the Milices to see…
The Island finding itself laid waste by enslaved fugitives, the Conseil resolved to negotiate with the man named Francisque, nègre of sieur Fabulet, and Chief of a large band. The…