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1685-Mar.

1685-Mar.: The French Crown promulgates the Black Code (Code Noir).

1685-Mar.: The French Crown promulgates the Black Code (Code Noir). This comprehensive legal document was intended to regulate relations between enslavers and the enslaved and ensure the conversion of the enslaved to Catholicism.

Source Fick, The Making of Haiti, 18; Ghachem, The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution, 4