France finally votes to strike the Code Noir from its books, its last slavery law

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM

There is something disquieting about the idea that a law governing slavery could still exist on the books in 2026. Not as an enforced law. Not as a policy. Just sitting there, formally unrepealed, in the archive of French legal history.

That was the status of…

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