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  2. Code Noir - Wikipedia

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    The Code noir (French pronunciation: [kɔd nwaʁ], Black code) was a decree passed by King Louis XIV of France in 1685 defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire and served as the code for slavery conduct in the French colonies up until 1789 the year marking the beginning of the French Revolution.

  3. Daemonologie - Wikipedia

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    Daemonologie—in full Dæmonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mightie Prince, James &c.—was first published in 1597 [1] by King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) as a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic.

  4. Epistle of James - Wikipedia

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    The author is identified as "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ" (James 1:1). James (Jacob, Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב, romanized: Ya'aqov, Ancient Greek: Ιάκωβος, romanized: Iakobos) was an extremely common name in antiquity, and a number of early Christian figures are named James, including: James the son of Zebedee, James the Less, James the son of Alphaeus, and James ...

  5. Apocryphon of James - Wikipedia

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    James says he has written a secret book in Hebrew, revealed to him by Jesus, and has sent it to the recipient of the letter, who is "a minister of the salvation of the saints." He warns to be careful not to reveal the book to many people, since it was not meant to be revealed even to all of the twelve disciples. Jesus appeared to the disciples ...

  6. Ukawsaw Gronniosaw - Wikipedia

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    Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (c. 1705 – 28 September 1775), [1] [a] also known as James Albert, was an enslaved African man who is considered the first published African in Britain. . Gronniosaw is known for his 1772 narrative autobiography A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself, which was the first slave ...

  7. Talk:Code Noir - Wikipedia

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    Some people think that MIR France would like to believe that Code noir history has been frozen for ever by philosophe Louis Sala Molins in its 1987 book, «Le Code noir ou le calvaire de Canaan.» As such MIR France religion is to believe the Louis Sala Molins book, and so to criticize Jean-François Niort one.

  8. John Punch (slave) - Wikipedia

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    John Punch (c. 1605 – c. 1650) was an Angolan-born resident of the colony of Virginia who became its first legally enslaved person in British colonial America under criminal law. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In contrast, John Casor became the first legally enslaved person of the colonies under civil law, having committed no crime.

  9. Black Codes (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (both free and freedmen).In 1832, James Kent wrote that "in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free colored persons of African blood; and in no part of the country do the latter, in point of fact ...