France: Slave Law
"Black Code" ("Code noir") from 1685
from: http://1libertaire.free.fr/CodeNoir02.html
- Übersetzung mit Deepl
Note from the Haiti-Reference website:
There were two versions of the Code Noir. The
first was prepared by Jean-Baptiste Colbert
(1616 - 1683), the King's Minister and powerful
Controller General. It was issued in 1685
by Louis XIV, who was King of France from May
14, 1643 to September 1, 1715. The second was
promulgated by his successor Louis XV in 1724.
Articles 5, 7, 8, 18 and 25 of the 1665 Code
noir were not included in the 1724 version. The
following text is that of Colbert (1665).
The Code Noir, which was intended to curb the
abuse of slaves by masters, did nothing other
than codify black slavery and the slave trade,
which were justified by the Church and
philosophers at the time. The sixty articles
reveal the hypocrisy of the legislator who,
while pretending to take into account the
humanity of the black slave, presents him in
purely legal terms as a commodity subject to the
laws of the market and as a good that is part of
a landed estate.
Sources:
-- Collections of rules,
edicts, declarations, and judgments pertaining
to commerce, the administration of justice,
and the police of the French colonies in the
Americas (orig. French: Recueils de
règlemens, édits, déclarations et arrêts,
concernant le commerce, l'administration de la
justice & la police des colonies françaises
de l'Amérique, & les engagés). New edition.
Paris: Chez les Libraires associés, 1765.
-- Le code noir / Introduction and notes by
Robert Chesnais. Paris: L'esprit frappeur ,
1998.
-- Sala-Molins, Louis: The Black Code, or The
Calvary of Canaan (orig. French: Le Code noir,
ou Le calvaire de Canaan). 4th edition. Paris:
Presses universitaires de France, 1987.
Full text of the "Black Code"
("Code noir") [of France which was proclaimed
by the Satanist Repto King in 1685]:
Art. 1: Religious dictatorship with a fantasy
Jesus: Jews are not allowed to live on French
colonial islands [and neither are all other
religions]
We want that the edict of the late King of
glorious memory, our most reverend [Fantasy]
Lord and [Fantasy] Father, of April 23, 1615,
will be executed on our islands; in doing so, we
order all our officials to expel from our
islands all [Moses fantasy] Jews who reside
there, whom we order, like the declared enemies
of the Christian name, to leave them [the
islands] within three months from the day of
publication of the present document, under
penalty of confiscation of body and property.
[And other religions are even less allowed. All
of France and the colonies are like a Vatican].
Art. 2: Religious dictatorship with a fantasy
Jesus: Slaves must be baptized and "taught"
with a Catholic fantasy Jesus and with a
fantasy god - otherwise comes a fine
All slaves on our islands are to be baptized and
taught the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman
[fantasy] religion. We oblige the inhabitants
who buy newly arrived Negroes [Africans] to
inform the governors and administrators of the
mentioned islands within eight weeks at the
latest, otherwise they will be fined
arbitrarily; they will give the necessary orders
to have them instructed and baptized within the
appropriate time.
Art. 3: Religious dictatorship with a fantasy
Jesus - other religions are considered
"rebels+disobedient" + all gatherings of other
religions are banned as "seditious" + tolerant
slave owners are also punished
We forbid any public practice of any religion
other than Catholic, Apostolic and Roman
[fantasy]. We want all who violate this to be
punished as rebels and disobedient to our
[Fantasy] commandments. We forbid all assemblies
for this purpose, which we declare indecent,
illicit and seditious, and which are subject to
the same punishment as is inflicted on the
masters who permit them and suffer them towards
their slaves.
Art. 4: Religious dictatorship with a fantasy
Jesus: Commanders with slave ships must all
believe in the Catholic fantasy Jesus -
otherwise there will be punishment + the
slaves will be confiscated
No commanders shall be entrusted with the
direction of the Negroes [Africans] who do not
profess the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman
[fantasy] religion, under penalty of
confiscation of the Negroes [Africans] against
the masters who have entrusted them, and
arbitrary punishment of the commanders who have
accepted this working post.
Art. 5: Jesus Fantasy Protestants are not
allowed to disturb Jesus Fantasy Catholics
during their fantasy processions
We forbid our subjects of the [Protestant
fantasy] religion to cause any disturbance or
hindrance to our other subjects, including their
slaves, in the free exercise of the Catholic,
Apostolic and Roman [fantasy] religions, under
penalty of exemplary punishment.
Art. 6: Religious dictatorship with holidays:
prohibition of work, prohibition of harvesting
- otherwise there will be fines against the
slaves and against the slave owners and:
slaves+agricultural products are confiscated
We oblige all our subjects, regardless of their
status and position, to observe the Sundays and
public holidays observed by our subjects of the
Catholic, Apostolic and Roman [Fantasy]
religion. We forbid them to work on these days
from midnight to midnight or to have their
slaves work to till the soil, make sugar or do
other work, under penalty of fines and arbitrary
punishment of the masters and confiscation of
both the sugar and the slaves caught at work by
our officials.
Art. 7: Religious dictatorship with holidays:
prohibition of going offering things on the
market - otherwise penalty+confiscation of
goods+fine
We likewise forbid them to hold the market for
Negroes [Africans] and other goods on the days
mentioned, with the same penalty of confiscation
of the goods then on the market and arbitrary
fines against the traders.
Art. 8: Religious dictatorship with a fantasy
Jesus: Those who are not Catholic are not
allowed to marry, are said to be "incapable"
for marriage - children of non-Catholics are
supposed to be "bastards"
We declare our subjects who do not belong to the
Catholic, Apostolic and Roman [fantasy] religion
to be incapable of entering into any valid
marriage in the future, we declare the children
born of such unions, which we hold and wish to
hold to be true, to be bastards, because they
come only from concubinage.
Art. 9: Religious dictatorship with a fantasy
Jesus: For children with cohabiting slaves,
the man is to pay a fine: 2000 pounds of sugar
- if the slave owner has children with his
slave, there is in addition the separation
punishment: slave mother and child are taken
away from him and barracked in a hospital for
life - but: by (Catholic Fantasy!) marriage
this robbery of women and children can be
avoided (marriage dictatorship!)
Free [white] men who have one or more children
by their concubinage with slaves, together with
the masters who have suffered them, shall each
be fined 2000 pounds of sugar, and if they are
the masters of the slave woman by whom they have
had the said children, we want, besides the
fine, that they be deprived of the slave woman
and children, and that she [the slave woman] and
they [her children] be committed to the hospital
without ever being able to be released. However,
this article shall not apply if a free man who
has not been married to another person during
his cohabitation with his female slave marries
the female slave in the manner prescribed by the
[Jesus fantasy] Church, who thereby becomes free
and the children become free and lawful [but
they become slaves of the Jesus fantasy Church].
Art. 10: Marriage dictatorship: Marriages
must be processed with all ceremonies - slaves
can also be married without the consent of
their parents
The ceremonies prescribed by the Decree of Blois
and the Declaration of 1639 for marriages shall
be observed in respect of both free and slaves.
Slaves do not need the consent of the slave's
father and mother. They only need the consent of
their master.
Art. 11: Marriage dictatorship: Slaves are
only allowed to marry if "their masters" agree
to it - forced marriages are prohibited
We expressly forbid [Jesus fantasy] pastors to
perform marriages of slaves unless they indicate
the consent of their masters. We also forbid
masters to force their slaves to marry against
their will.
Art. 12: Slave children remain slaves +
belong to the "masters" of the slave woman
Children born of marriages between slaves shall
be slaves and belong to the masters of the slave
women and not to the masters of their husbands
if the man and woman have different masters.
Art. 13: Marriage dictatorship: slave man
with free woman with children: then all become
free - slave woman with free man with
children: then the children remain slaves
We want that, if the slave husband has married a
free woman, the children, both male and female,
follow the status of their mother and are free
like her, regardless of their father's
servitude; and that, if the father is free and
the mother is a slave, the children are slaves
in the same way.
Art. 14: Religious dictatorship: Fantasy
baptized slaves shall be given a grave in a
cemetery - UNbaptized slaves shall be buried
in a field at night
Masters are obliged to bury their baptized
slaves in the designated cemeteries in holy land
[cemetery]. And those who die without having
received baptism shall be buried at night in a
field near the place where they died.
Art. 15: Slaves are prohibited from carrying
weapons - whipping penalty - the weapon goes
to the finder - slaves are only allowed to
carry weapons when hunting animals
We forbid slaves to carry any offensive weapons
or large sticks, under penalty of whipping and
confiscation of the weapons in favor of the one
who finds them confiscated, with the sole
exception of those who are sent hunting by their
masters, who must carry their tickets or known
brands.
Art. 16: Prohibition of contact: Slaves and
slave girls before weddings are prohibited
from contact - otherwise punishment comes with
whip or branding with lily up to the death
penalty - the "Christians" should denounce
Likewise, we forbid slaves belonging to
different masters to associate during the day or
night under the pretext of marriage or
otherwise, whether at one of their masters or
elsewhere, and certainly not on the main roads
or in secluded places, under corporal punishment
not less than the lash and [branding with a]
lily [fleur-de-lis]; in case of frequent
recidivism and other aggravating circumstances,
the death penalty may also be imposed, which we
leave to the judgment of the judges. We call on
all our subjects to track down the offenders,
arrest them and bring them to prison, even if
they are not officers and there is not yet a
decree against them [every fry Fantasy catholic
can "play police"].
Art. 17: Prohibition of contact: Slave owners
who allow meetings of slaves from other slave
owners shall be punished
Masters who are convicted of having permitted or
tolerated such meetings with slaves other than
those belonging to them shall be sentenced in
their own and private names to make good all
damage done to their neighbors in connection
with such meetings, in a fine of 10 ECU the
first time and double that amount in the event
of a recurrence.
Art. 18: Slaves are not allowed to sell sugar
cane - otherwise whip penalty + fine against
the slave owner + against the buyer
Let us forbid slaves to sell sugar cane for any
reason or occasion, even with the permission of
their masters, under penalty of the whip against
the slaves, of 10 livres tournois against the
master who permitted it, and the same fine
against the buyer.
Art. 19: Slaves are only allowed to exhibit
things for sale or bring them to private homes
with the special permission of the slavery
owner - otherwise there will be reclaim of the
goods + fine for the buyers
We also forbid them to display any kind of food,
even fruit, vegetables, firewood, herbs for
feeding livestock and their manufactures, for
sale in the market or bring them into private
houses for sale without the express permission
of their masters by a note or by known signs;
under penalty of reclaiming the things thus sold
without refunding the price to the masters and
of 6 livres tournois as a fine in their favor
against the buyers.
Art. 20: Royal officials shall control the
slaves' identity cards when the sklaves are
seeling food and goods on markets
We intend for this purpose that two persons
shall be appointed by our officials at each
market to inspect the food and goods brought
there by slaves, together with the bills and
tokens of their masters which they carry.
Art. 21: Catholics who see slaves carrying
goods without identification may confiscate
the goods and return them to the slave owner
if the distance permits - or the slaves will
be interned in the hospital+the slave owners
will be alarmed
We allow all our subjects residing on the
islands to confiscate all things with which they
find the slaves loaded, when they have neither
their masters' tickets nor known brands [every
free Fantasy "Catholic" can "play police"], to
return them immediately to their masters if
their dwelling is near the place where their
slaves were caught in an offense; otherwise they
will be sent immediately to the hospital to be
kept there until the masters have been notified.
Art. 22: Food: Slaves from the age of 10
receive from the slave owner 2 1/2 pots of
cassava flour or three cassava (cassava roots)
or equivalent + 2 pounds of beef or 3 pounds
of fish or equivalent - children from 2 to 10
years of age get the half
Masters are obliged to provide their slaves ten
years of age and older with two and a half pots,
Paris measure, of manioc flour or three cassava,
each weighing at least two and a half pounds, or
the equivalent, together with two pounds of
salted beef or three pounds of fish or other
things in proportion; and to children, from
weaning to ten years of age, get half of the
food mentioned above.
[And the food with meat or fish is mostly
spoiled resp. it's the waste of the "Christian"
gentlemen from their kitchen].
Art. 23: Food: Slave owners are not allowed
to replace the food for slaves with alcohol
We forbid them to give slaves cane liquor or
guildive to replace the food mentioned in the
previous article.
Art. 24: Food: Slave owners may never let
slaves work for their own food on their own
account
Likewise, we forbid them to stop giving them
food letting their slaves work work for their
own account on a certain day of the week.
Art. 25: Clothing: Slaves must receive 2
canvas garments or 4 ares of canvas per year
Masters are obliged to provide each slave with
two canvas dresses or four ares of canvas per
year depending on the meaning of the master.
Art. 26: Slaves may report lack of
maintenance by the slave owner to the Attorney
General and fallible slave owners will be
prosecuted - crimes against slaves will not be
tolerated
Slaves who are not fed, clothed and maintained
by their masters, as we have it ordered here,
may report this to our Attorney General, and
place their writings in his hands, but action of
the office comes only when there is another
warning from another side, and his masters will
be persecuted without cost; this is what we say
about crimes and barbarous and inhuman treatment
of masters towards their slaves.
[This is only theory - because a slave is not
allowed to flee from his place, and because no
one believes him, because bruises from blows are
not visible on the black skin!]
Art. 27: Sick slaves must be fed by the slave
owner - or fed in the hospital, and the slave
owner must pay for the food in the hospital
Slaves who are infirm through age, disease, or
otherwise, whether the disease be incurable or
not, shall be fed and maintained by their
masters; and if abandoned, the slaves shall be
committed to the hospital, to which the masters
shall be condemned to pay 6 sols for each day
for the feeding and maintenance of each slave.
Art. 28: Slaves are not allowed to have
anything - everything belongs to the slave
owner, even gifts to the slaves belong to the
slave owner - relatives of slaves or their
children have NO inheritance rights to things
that have been given to slaves - slaves are
not able to make contracts, so they cannot
write dispositions
We declare that slaves shall have nothing that
does not belong to their masters, and that
whatever they receive by their work, or by the
liberality of other persons, or in any other way
whatever, shall be acquired as the full property
of their masters, without the children of
slaves, their fathers and mothers, their
parents, and all others, being able to claim it
by inheritance, inter vivos dispositions, or
mortis causa; We declare such dispositions
[inheritance dispositions by slaveholders] null
and void, as well as all promises and
obligations made by them [the slaves to their
children], since they were made by people who
are not in a position to make dispositions and
contracts on their own authority.
Art. 29: Responsibility of slave owners for
the actions of slaves - slaves making trade
business must hand over the profits
We nevertheless want masters to be liable for
what their slaves have done at their command,
together with what they have managed and traded
in the stores and for the particular kind of
trade for which they have been commissioned by
their masters, and in the event that their
masters have not given them orders and have not
commissioned them, they shall be liable only up
to what has accrued to their benefit, and if
nothing has accrued to the benefit of the
masters, the money of the said slaves shall
become the property of the masters up to the
amount which the slaves have traded in the
stores and in the particular kind of trade for
which they have been commissioned by their
masters.
Art. 30: Certain professions are prohibited
to slaves: public offices, agent of the slave
owner for trade or administration, legal
testimonies, expert witness or arbitrator in
court, testimonies of slaves are only a guide
for the judge
Slaves shall not be employed ex officio or as
agents for public office, nor shall they be
employed by any other than their masters as
agents to trade and administer, nor shall they
be arbitrators, experts or witnesses, either in
civil or criminal cases; and if heard as
witnesses, their testimony shall serve only as a
reminder to guide the judge.
Art. 31: Legal prohibitions for slaves: can
never sue (file a lawsuit), can never be a
witness, unless the slaves are accused by the
slave owner
Slaves may not appear as plaintiffs or
defendants in civil cases, nor as civil parties
in criminal cases. This is only the case when
their masters have a lawsuit against and are
defending in civil and criminal cases in case of
offenses and outrages which were committed
against their slaves.
Art. 32: Courts may condemn slaves if they
cause harm to third parties - the law is the
same: slaves are condemned like "free persons"
are condemned
Slaves may be prosecuted even as a single party
on the court without their master, (except) in
the case when their master has committed
complicity; the accused slaves shall be tried at
first instance by the ordinary judges and on
appeal by the Sovereign Council on the basis of
the same investigation and with the same
formalities as free persons are judged.
Art. 33: Slaves as perpetrators: Bruises or
bloodshed or blows to the face are heavily
punishable by death
A slave who has beaten his master provoking
bruises or bloody injuries, or has done the same
to his mistress or his mistress's husband or
their children or has beaten them in the face -
shall be punished by death.
[But the masters can beat the slaves, and you
can't see the spots of the bruises on the black
skin (!)].
Art. 34: Slaves as perpetrators: Offenses
against freemen shall be severely punished, up
to the death penalty
And as for outrages and assaults committed by
slaves against free persons, we want them to be
severely punished, if necessary even with death.
Art. 35: Slaves as perpetrators: Theft of
large animals is to be punished with
"embarrassing punishments", up to the death
penalty
Qualified thefts, including those of horses,
riders, mules, oxen or cows, committed by slaves
or freedmen, shall be punished with punitive
penalties, including death if necessary.
Art. 36: Slaves as perpetrators: Theft of
smaller animals or agricultural products shall
be punished, if necessary with the rod plus
branding with a lily
Thefts of sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, sugar
cane, peas, millet, manioc or other vegetables
committed by slaves shall be punished according
to the quality of the theft by the judges, who
may, if necessary, sentence them to be beaten
with rods and branded with a lily (fleur-de-lis)
by the executor of the high court.
Art. 37: Slaves as perpetrators: Theft or
other damage to third parties is punished by
the slave owner or by the owner of the stolen
goods - the penalty expires 3 days after the
conviction
Masters are obliged, in the case of theft or
other damage caused by their slaves, in addition
to corporal punishment for the slaves, to make
good the damage on their behalf if they do not
prefer to give the slave to the person to whom
the damage was done; which they must choose to
do within three days of the day of conviction,
otherwise they forfeit.
Art. 38: Slaves on the run: 2 ears off +
branding with a lily - in case of further
escape: half leg or arm gone + second branding
with a line - in case of further escape: death
penalty
A runaway slave, who was on the run for a month
after his master denounced him in court, is to
have his ears cut off and marked on one shoulder
with a lily; if he relapses another month after
he has been denounced, one half leg or half arm
(knuckle) shall be cut off and his other
shoulder shall be marked with a lily; and the
third time he shall be punished with death.
Art. 39: Slaves fleeing: If freedmen give
shelter to a fleeing slave, they must pay the
slave owner 300 pounds of sugar per day of
shelter - free persons pay 10 pounds tournois
per day of shelter
Freedmen who have given shelter to runaway
slaves in their homes shall be fined to the
masters of 300 pounds of sugar for each day of
giving shelter (restraint), and other free
persons who have given them similar shelter
shall be fined 10 livres tournois for each day
of giving shelter (restraint).
Art. 40: Criminal slave convicted: receives a
visit from valuating agents before execution
The slave who is punished with death on the
complaint of his master, who is not complicit in
the crime to which he was condemned, is valued
before the execution by two of the principal
inhabitants of the island, appointed ex officio
by the magistrate, and the price of the
valuation is paid to the master; and, in order
to do justice to this, the Intendant shall levy
upon each head of the negroes [Africans] who pay
their rights, the sum obtained by the valuation
which shall be levied on each of these negroes
[Africans], and levied by the tenant of the
royal domain, in order to avoid expense.
Art. 41: Justice against slaves: Criminal
proceedings against slaves are exempt from tax
We forbid judges, our prosecutors, and court
clerks to levy any taxes on slaves in criminal
trials, under penalty of embezzlement.
Art. 42: Slaves as perpetrators: The slave
owner may put them in chains, beat them with
rods and ropes - torture and mutilation is
prohibited [chains and beatings are NOT
torture???]
The masters are only allowed to put them in
chains and have them beaten with rods or ropes
if they believe that their slaves deserve it.
[Bruises cannot be seen on the black skin]. They
are forbidden to torture them or inflict any
kind of mutilation of their limbs, otherwise the
slaves will be confiscated and an extraordinary
trial will be instituted against the masters
[this is theory].
[Torture with beatings against blacks does not
provoke any visible hematomas - and this is
shamelessly exploited by the criminal
"Christians" worldwide for over 400 years].
Art. 43: Slave owner as murderer of a slave
is prosecuted+punished - or he is forgiven -
pardon (oblivion) is not needed for this
We instruct our officers to prosecute the
masters or commanders who have killed a slave
who was under their power or direction, and to
punish the murder according to the cruelty of
the circumstances; and if there is cause for
absolution [forgiveness of sin after
confession], we allow our officers to dismiss
both the masters and the commanders who have
been acquitted of guilt. A letter of pardon from
our part is not necessary for this.
Art. 44: Slaves can be inherited: they are
divided equally among the co-heirs without
mortgage, without precipute (?), without
birthright of the firest one, and they are NOT
subject to many things
We declare that the slaves are movable and as
such are admitted into the community, that they
have no mortgage, that they are divided equally
among the co-heirs, without preziput [?] and
birthright, that they are not subject to the
usual douaire [dowry], to any feudal and lignary
deprivation, to anyfeudal and lordly rights, to
the formalities of decrees or to the deduction
of the four fifths in case of disposition by
reason of death or testament.
Art. 45: Slaves can be inherited: White
"Christian" heirs can claim with determination
certain slaves to inherit
We do not, however, wish to deprive our subjects
[white free Catholic fantasy men] of the
possibility of making them [the black slaves]
their own for their persons and theirs on their
side and in their line [slaves are hereditary],
as is customary in the case of sums of money and
other movable things.
Art. 46: Seizure of slaves: is carried out in
the same way as in the case of property -
slaves can be pawned, the money can be
distributed - if the slave owner goes
bankrupt, after the payment of the privileged
debts, the slaves will count with one sol per
pound
In the confiscation of slaves, the forms
prescribed by our ordinances and customs for the
seizure of movable property are observed. We
want the money derived from this to be
distributed in the order of seizures; or, in the
case of bankruptcy, at the sol per pound, after
the privileged debts have been paid, and,
generally, that the condition of slaves shall be
regulated in all matters as that of other
movable property [slaves are things and belong
to property law], with the following exceptions.
Art. 47: Confiscation of slaves: Garnishment
(seizure) of a slave family with children up
to 10 years of age may not be split - but from
pre-puberty onwards the families may be split
(!)
The husband, wife, and their prepubescent
children [up to 10 years old] may not be seized
and sold separately if they are all under the
power of the same master; we declare null and
void the separate attachments and sales made in
these cases, which we intend to do
-- in the case of voluntary disposals,
-- the authors of the selling action will get
it's penalty
-- the kept ones will be confiscated and given
to the byer
-- for the normal price without up-pricing.
Art. 48: Slaves from 14 to 60 years of age
working in sugar factories, factories of
natives and in dwellings may not be seized for
debts, unless the purchase price has not been
paid in full, or if the company goes bankrupt
and is seized - seizure of a bankrupt company
without the slaves is prohibited
The slaves presently employed in sugar
factories, native factories, and dwellings, at
the age of fourteen and over up to sixty years
of age, shall not be seized for debts, except
for what is due of their purchase price, or that
the sugar factory, native factory, or dwelling
place in which they work may actually be seized;
we forbid, on pain of nullity, the actual
seizure of the sugar factories, native factories
and dwellings and auctioned off by decree,
without including the negroes [Africans] of the
above-mentioned age who work there.
Art. 49: Plantation goes bankrupt etc.: If
confiscated slaves have children, then the
children do not belong to the confiscated
property
In the case of a seizure of a sugar factory,
indigo plantation, or dwelling houses where
there are also slaves, counts the following: The
judicial tenant is obliged to pay the full rent
price, and when slaves have given birth to
children during the lease period, these children
do not belong to his profit.
Art. 50: Plantation goes bankrupt etc.: New
slave children are mentioned in a notice, as
well as dead slaves
We want the said children, born since the
attachment of slaves, to belong to the attached
party [to the slave family] if the creditors are
otherwise satisfied, or to be added to the
petitioner if a decree intervenes. Such a decree
is published on a notice board and reference is
made to the children, after which the insertion
of the decree takes place. The same notice also
mentions the slaves who have died since the
actual confiscation in which they were involved.
Any agreements to the contrary that contradict
this will be declared null and void.
Art. 51: Plantation goes bankrupt etc.:
auction of land and slaves - pricing
In order to avoid expense and long proceedings,
we want the whole price of the common auction
being distributed to the creditors: land,
slaves, judicial leases. The creditors receive
their things according to the order of their
privileges and mortgages, without distinguishing
what is the price of the land and what is the
price of the slaves.
Art. 52: Plantation goes bankrupt etc.:
levies only in proportion to the price of the
land
And as for all, the feudal and manorial taxes
are to be paid only in proportion to the price
of the land.
Art. 53: Plantation goes bankrupt etc.:
property and slaves go together or not
The feudal lords are not advised to withdraw the
decreed funds when they don't withdraw the
slaves sold together with the funds, and the
bidder will not be advised, to keep the slaves
back without the funds.
Art. 54: Slaves on plantations: Overseers of
plantations are supposed to be like good
fathers of families - if the relationship ends
because of illness, old age or death of the
slave etc., the overseers are not obliged to
pay back prices - and the slave children
cannot be kept but: they go into the
possession of the slave owner
Our instruction to the noble and bourgeois
overseers, to the beneficiaries, to the
amodifiers and to other beneficiaries of the
funds, to the slave administrators who work
there, is the following one: They are to
administer the mentioned slaves as good fathers
of families. If, at the end of the
administration, slaves have fallen ill or died
or diminished through no fault of their own
because of old age or otherwise, he does not
have to pay compensation. And if slaves have
given birth to children during the
administration period, then the children belong
to the slave family and not to the
administrator; because we want to save the
children, and they belong [in fact] to the slave
owner, to the masters and owners [of the
slaves].
Art. 55: Freed slaves: "Christian" masters
from the age of 20 can let free slaves of any
age, no justification is needed
Masters who are twenty years of age can release
their slaves alive or by death by all legal
acts, without any justification for the release
or without the need of advice of relatives, even
if they are twenty-five years old or minors.
Art. 56: Slaves can become free: if they are
appointed by the slave owner as universal
legatee / executor / guardian of white
children
Slaves who have been made universal legatees by
their masters, or when slaves were appointed
executors of testament or were appointed to be
the guardians of their children, should be hold
free and should be considered as free.
[This liberation of slaves, who are then
considered "free", is processed for easy
marriages with ex-slaves, or to allow slaves to
learn to read and write and study legally. The
precondition for this is an intelligent slave
owner].
Art. 57: Freed slaves: The certificate of
emancipation replaces the birth certificate as
a slave - there is no need for a certificate
of naturalization - they become "natural
subjects" of the King
We declare that their liberation on our islands
will replace their birth certificate as a slave,
and that the freed slaves don't need our letters
of naturalization to enjoy the benefits of our
natural subjects of our kingship, or our
territories and countries of our obedience, even
if they are born in foreign countries.
Art. 58: Freed slaves: They should show
special respect to the ex-slave owners -
insults against the ex-slave owner are
severely punished - ex-slave owners no longer
have any rights to freed slaves
We order the freed slaves to show special
respect to their former masters, to their
widows, and to their children. Therefore, an
insult which they inflict upon them shall be
punished more severely than if it had been
inflicted upon another person: We declare,
however, that they are free and liable to them
from all other burdens, services, and useful
rights which their former masters had the right
to claim [before letting the slave free]
regarding persons, goods and inheritances.
Art. 59: Freeing slaves: have the same rights
as the "free-born"
We grant to the freed slaves the same rights,
privileges, and immunities as the free-born are
enjoying; we want that this merit of liberty
will have effect for them as a person and for
their possession, which is the same effect that
the happiness of natural liberty produces to our
other subjects.
[Catholic Jesus fantasy people is defined as
"natural liberty" and all other religions not.
This is logic discrimination thinking of
criminal "Christian" catholic Vatican states. It
can be assumed that similar laws were in force
in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Switzerland,
and also in the fantasy "Christian" Protestant
and Orthodox states, and in all their colonies,
or are still in force today. The criminal
brutality of the Satanic Vatican with its
criminal secret services Opus Dei and with the
Masonic lodge P2/P3 etc. does not stop].
Art. 60: The use of fines + confiscated
goods: 2/3 go to the relevant judicial
officers involved in the cases (???!!!) - 1/3
go to the local hospitals
We hereby declare that the confiscations and
fines, which have no special provision, belong
to us to be paid to those in charge of the
confiscation of our rights and income;
However, we want a third of the aforementioned
confiscations and fines to be diverted to the
hospital on the island where they were
confiscated.
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