Trace the process of abolition of slavery in French colonies
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The National Convention voted to abolish slavery in all the French colonies on February 4, 1794. Slavery was reintroduced in the French colonies by Napoleon Bonaparte. Slavery was finally abolished in 1848 by the French Second Republic.
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✔✔The National Assembly had long debates about whether the rights go man and citizen applied to the subjects in the colonies.
✔✔The Convention in 1794 declared that all subjects, even slaves, were equal and ordered to free all slaves.
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✔✔Napoleon Bonaparte on rising to power reintroduced slavery.
✔✔Plantation owners were given the right to own African negro slaves.
✔✔Slavery was finally abolished in France
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