The Code Noir of 1685 required night burial for unbaptized slaves

Evidence

Unbaptized African slaves—called bossales—who had died soon after their arrival were buried around the “Croix bossale.” (The 1685 Code Noir, which governed the treatment of slaves in the French colonies, stipulated that unbaptized slaves be buried “at night in a field near the place where they died.”) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 53

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Category: Factual Claims

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