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1685

1685: Article 59 of the Code Noir granted full citizenship and rights to all manumitted people, known as the affranchis.

1685: Article 59 of the Code Noir granted full citizenship and rights to all manumitted people, known as the affranchis. This legal provision was intended to integrate formerly enslaved people into the colonial society as subjects of the French crown.

Source  ·  p. 259 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 259