It is an island, meaning it is surrounded by water on all sides, unlike countries on the mainland of Europe. 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:to establish restrictions on the slave trade
Explanation:
The Code Noir defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire, restricted the activities of free Negroes, made Roman Catholicism compulsory, and ordered all Jews out of France's colonies.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Not following the Jim Crow laws would be a huge problem for African-American people depending on what they did. They could be incarcerated, fined, beaten, or even worse, lynched and killed. A famous African-American child was killed by an angry mob after a white woman claimed that his behavior was inappropriate and what's even worse is that the people who killed him were acquitted.