An absolutely excellent piece on the long life (and now death in some but not other ways) of the Code Noir from @brettrushforth.bsky.social - follow this Substack too which is tied to Brett and @Chris Hudson's important new book, Beyond the Ocean:
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Julie Hardwick
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We should celebrate France’s long-overdue repudiation of the Code Noir. But French racism did not begin with the code and won’t simply disappear with its repeal.
