What’s next after scrapping the ‘Black Code’ in France?

The “Code Noir” (or Black Code) is simply a instrumentality galore were shocked to observe inactive existed successful France.

It dates backmost 400 years and outlines the rules that governed slavery successful French Caribbean colonies – rules that allowed enslaved owners to dainty their labourers arsenic spot that could beryllium bought, sold and inherited; rules that permitted cruel punishment specified arsenic beatings – often to decease – and hangings.

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This week, French MPs voted unanimously to repeal the legislation. But is that enough?

And does it connection reparatory justness to the descendants of the victims of slavery?

Presenter: Tom McRae

Guests:

Liliane Umubyeyi – Cofounder and enforcement manager of the African Futures Lab

Marlene Daut – Professor of French and African diaspora studies astatine Yale University

Anne Giudicelli – Global relations specializer and erstwhile information expert for the French Foreign Office