France moves towards symbolic repealing of slavery legislation
Le Monde
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France abolished enslaving humans more than 170 years ago but a series of royal decrees from the 17th and 18th centuries that established the legal status of enslaved people in its colonies, called the 'Black code,' were never explicitly overturned.
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