France’s powerful lower house voted finally to scrub a fundamental slavery-era edict from French law on Thursday. After the ...

The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing the Code Noir, or Black Code, the ...

Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon ...

Slavery was abolished in the country in 1848, but these texts remained in the shadow of its law. The Black Code, a decree ...

Among the proclamations of the first French republic was an end to slavery in its island possessions—a forerunner of wider ...

Lawmakers voted unanimously to strip the “Code Noir,” the texts that regulated slavery until it was abolished in 1848. Some ...

Last year protestors disrupted the German festival Oktoberfest in St. Charles County to bring attention to issues of social justice and the acquittal of former police officer Jason Stokely for the ...

In light of this significant day, we will be acknowledging three prominent Nigerians who fought for the abolition of slave trade. We’ll be focusing on the lives of these distinguished individuals who ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...