The Code Noir also gave plantation owners extreme disciplinary power over their slaves, including legitimizing corporal punishment as a method of maintaining control.

He completed the Code Noir begun by his father.

According to the Code Noir, Jews were excluded from the French territory of Louisiana.

His given name resonates with the Code Noir.

Although loosely established, the Code Noir forced baptisms and decreed the conversion of all slaves to Catholicism.

New France soon established its own 'Code Noir,' defining the control and management of slaves.

As in other French colonies, the treatment of the slaves was regulated by the Code Noir.

While the Code Noir required that the slaves receive a Christian education, many secretly practiced animism and often combined elements of the two faiths.

Despite racial tension and the Code Noir French Men continued to have sexual relations with women of color (both free and slave).

First, the Code Noir explicitly forbade the open practice of all African religions.