France today does not endorse racism.
It endorses human rights, equality, and universalism.
That doesn’t erase yesterday’s France.
A country that built generational wealth and global power through slavery and forced labor.
In the 18th century, France produced around 40% of the world’s sugar using enslaved Black labor.
That wealth didn’t vanish.
It accumulated.
While Black lineages were drained for centuries.
Today, France prefers to believe color does not matter.
History suggests otherwise.
Black France Renaissance is an attempt to write Black people back into France’s historical pantheon,
not as footnotes, but as part of the nation’s foundation.
This is why I write Black historical fantasy,
as a way of restoring agency, power, and justice to those who were denied the right to fight back.
The Noir Letter is me thinking out loud.
