Code Henry, The – Nèg Mawon Podcast

Vaval, Duraciné. “Le Roi d’Haïti Henri Christophe,” in Revue de la Societé d’Histoire et de Géographie d’Haïti. June 1931.
Leyburn, James G. The Haitian People. 1942.

The Code Henry was promulgated to n January 30, 1812.
It is structured into seven parts: Civil, Commercial, Shipping and Maritime, Civil Process, Agriculture, and Military.
In general, the Code followed French precedent, except for the Agriculture section.
The Agriculture section was a unique invention of Henry Christophe, unparalleled in his time.
The Agriculture parts of the Code Henry was something to behold, according to some of the King’s contemporaries at the time.
Christophe devised a social order comprised of nobles and serfs and integrated those roles into a plantation economy based on money crops.
His Agricultural Law regulated the duties of proprietors and cultivators in an integrated fashion.
Slackering/laziness was literally against the law. Industriousness was the parent of virtue, idleness the source of vice and punishable.