S01E35 — Why Did France Still Have Racist Laws on the Books?
France was one of the world’s major colonial powers in the 17th century, ruling parts of the Caribbean where hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans were forced to work on plantations. Although slavery was abolished in 1848, the "Code Noir" - a set of laws regulating slavery and the lives of enslaved people - was never formally repealed until now.
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