The 1685 Code Noir regulated detailed treatment of slaves
Evidence
Masters and colonial administrators agreed that it was vital to contain this slave population. But they often disagreed vehemently about how to do it. The King’s 1685 Code Noir laid out detailed regulations regarding the treatment of slaves—their hours of labor, food, housing, clothes, and punishment—as well as related issues such as the process of emancipation. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 116
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines the Code Noir and its scope.
Related
- The 1685 Code Noir conflicted with masters’ wishes over how to control slaves. (similarity 0.92)
- The Code Noir was never genuinely enforced in Saint-Domingue (similarity 0.83)
- The Code Noir of 1685 required night burial for unbaptized slaves (similarity 0.80)
- Colonial masters rejected the Code Noir’s mutilation penalties to preserve slave property value (similarity 0.80)
- The Code Noir originally barred legal discrimination on the basis of ancestry (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Code Noir regulations were systematically ignored by slave masters
#complicates(0.70) - The 1685 Code Noir originally barred discrimination based solely on African ancestry.
#expands(0.60) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 217 - Napoleon’s 1802 decree publicly restored slavery and the slave trade in the colonies
#contradicts(0.20) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 1003