ATLANTIC'S SLAVES

The Atlantic milking comes along with the creation of the new type of slaves: it's the status of ebony. The ebony is considered like a delicate good. With the reification of the ebony, his owner must impose the worst ill treatment or many pretext of rebellion or a simple resistance. It’s necessary for the Black Code to impose the status of slave. In particular, he declares "the slaves must be furniture" (article 44). Certain articles protect partially slaves.For example by imposing the Christian baptism, by forbidding the Sunday work.

The articles regulate the punishment by fixing a progressive scale of ill treatment according to the gravity of the "fault blamed"(article 42).

It’s forbidden to torture slaves, the whip, and the amputation of the ear, the marketing of the warm iron of flower of lily, and obviously the death are authorized in the indicate condition. The crushing majority of articles must concern the homework of the slaves and the punishments which are reserved for them if they break them.