# Code Noir articles compel Catholic baptism and restrict enslaved people's legal personhood as a dated rights path

Date: 1685

## The fact

Code Noir articles compel Catholic baptism and restrict enslaved people's legal personhood. The instrument is that civil-status cluster inside the 1685 edict, not a later abolition statute and not the labour-unfreedom twin as a duplicate. Louis XIV of France's documented role is: The edict he issued requires baptism and binds status. Clergy and planters implemented.

## Context

The March labour row stores hereditary slave work. This stores personhood and compelled religion. Sharing colonial clergy is required. The setting of Code Noir articles compel Catholic baptism and restrict enslaved people's legal personhood as a dated rights path is the public file around 1685-03-15. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [protection-of-minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Université Laval CEFAN — Code Noir articles on religion and status at https://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/amsudant/guyanefr1685.htm (Université Laval / CEFAN). Independent locator: Britannica — Code Noir, religious and civil clauses neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Code-Noir (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Université Laval CEFAN — Code Noir articles on religion and status (https://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/amsudant/guyanefr1685.htm; Université Laval / CEFAN). Independent carrier: Britannica — Code Noir, religious and civil clauses neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Code-Noir; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Université Laval CEFAN — Code Noir articles on religion and status (https://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/amsudant/guyanefr1685.htm; Université Laval / CEFAN).

## Significance

Worsening path from Code Noir articles compel Catholic baptism and restrict enslaved people's legal personhood as a dated rights path on 1685-03-15. Compelled religion plus denied civil personality is a minority-rights path stored separately from the labour-unfreedom twin. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Code Noir articles compel Catholic baptism and restrict enslaved people's legal personhood as a dated rights path under 1685-03-15 for Louis XIV of France. Established: a sourced public record of Code Noir articles compel Catholic baptism and restrict enslaved people's legal personhood as a dated rights path under 1685-03-15.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not split every article into a Fact. One rights cluster. Mixed effects of Code Noir articles compel Catholic baptism and restrict enslaved people's legal personhood as a dated rights path are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The attached driver is protection-of-minority-rights. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Code Noir articles compel Catholic baptism and restrict enslaved people's legal personhood as a dated rights path. Naming Louis XIV of France does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1685-03-15 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Louis XIV of France: https://factrail.ai/people/louis-xiv-of-france

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/amsudant/guyanefr1685.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Code-Noir

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/l14-code-noir-baptism