The Lower House of the French Parliament Thursday voted, in a rare show of unanimity, to adopt a Bill that would repeal Code Noir (Black Code), used to govern slaves across the nation’s colonies under King Louis XIV in 1685, the Associated Press reported. For about two centuries after France had abolished slavery in 1848, the law which treated human beings as properties, and enabled them to be beaten, sold, raped, and murdered, persisted, the report noted. However, the debate at the National Assembly on Thurday turned raw, as members voted 254-0 to wipe it off from the French law. French President Emmanuel Macron last week asserted that Code Noir’s 60 articles “should never have survived the abolition of slavery” in the 19th century. Even though he stopped short of an apology, he stated, “The silence, even the indifference, that we have maintained for nearly two centuries toward this Black Code is no longer an oversight.” “It has become a form of offense,” he added.…