In 1685 Louis XIV signed the Code Noir, giving slavery legal status and turning enslaved Africans into property. Andrew Curran on the document that moved a word from ethnography towards race. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com
In 1685 Louis XIV signed the Code Noir, giving slavery legal status and turning enslaved Africans into property. Andrew Curran on the document that moved a word from ethnography towards race. Full episode: Keen On America — keenon.substack.com