Question

What impact did french revolution have on slave trade

Answer 1

1)due to the lack of slaves, which led to a triangular slave trade between france, amarica and africa.

2) the French merchants sailed to African coast and bought slaves from the local chiefs and sold it to the buyers in the French carrebbian colonies.

3) this trade was opposed by many people and finally the convention passed laws abolishing slavery in 1794.

4) however slavery was reintroduced by nepolian Bonaparte and was finally abolished in 1848.