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6
Mei
1687

French slave code is registered in Saint-Domingue

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📅 6 Mei 1687 📍 Haiti

The 1685 French royal ordinance governing enslaved people in French Caribbean colonies was registered by the Sovereign Council of Saint-Domingue on 6 May 1687. The code regulated enslaved people as property, restricted movement and family life, imposed Catholicism, and authorized violent discipline. Legal regulation did not prevent routine brutality; it organized a system built on coerced labor.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Louis XIV

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

French Crown

Sovereign Council of Saint-Domingue