The Code Noir granted freedmen the same rights, privileges, and immunities as those enjoyed by persons born free, with the view that the accomplishment of acquired liberty should have on the former the same effect that the happiness of natural liberty caused in other subjects.[2] As these mixed breeds were later lost, so to speak, among the Latins, it is almost impossible to determine what their circumstances were, and what advantages of education they had.
[Footnote 1: Bancroft, _Arizona and New Mexico_, pp.

27-32.] [Footnote 2: The Code Noir obliged every planter to have his Negroes instructed and baptized.

It allowed the slave for instruction, worship, and rest not only every Sunday, but every festival usually observed by the Roman Catholic Church.

It did not permit any market to be held on Sundays or holidays.

It prohibited, under severe penalties, all masters and managers from corrupting their female slaves.