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• Authorship of the inception section has been corrected to a specific individual name (Jean Baptiste Patoulet) from a more generic phrasing.
• The subsequent evolution section now references a different legal source (1685 Code noir) than previously cited (1783 ordinance).

Replace “written by the first intendant of the French islands of the Americas as well as those of his successor Michel Bégon Legal historians have” with “written by the first intendant of the French islands of the Americas Jean Baptiste Patoulet as well as those of his successor Michel Bégon Legal historians have”.

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