Making Race in the Courtroom. Kenneth R. Aslakson

grown in the region, this crop alone could not support a slave society. As a result, the Louisiana Code Noir was honored in the breach. Most notably, masters did not take seriously the restrictions placed on their ability to emancipate their slaves. At the end of French rule, there were close to 200 free people of African descent living in or around New Orleans.⁴⁶