Why did Napoleon reintroduce slavery? Please explain it in simple words and i will mark you Brainliest
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Answer:
1) There were prolonged debates on whether to extend the rights of man to all French Colonies.
2) When the Convention decided to free all slaves in 1794, Napoleon reintroduced slavery ten years later.
3) A huge portion of the French economy depended on slave trade and cities like Bordeaux and Nantes owed their position to the slave trade.
4) Powerful businessmen had their stake in the slave trade, whose support and finance was necessary for Napoleon’s wars, as he saw to liberate Europe.
5) For commodities such as sugar, tobacco, coffee and indigo slave trade was necessary.
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Explanation:
Napoleon's intention was to unify the system in the colonies, and, to be totally clear here, effectively to reintroduce slavery, as is shown by his instructions authorising representatives of the government in Guadeloupe and in Guyana to introduce it at an opportune moment. And it was enacted in the following months.
4 February 1794
The French Law of 20 May 1802 was passed that day (30 floréal year X), revoking the Law of 4 February 1794 (16 pluviôse) which had abolished slavery in all the French colonies.
Napoleon argued he was “maintaining” slavery, since its formal abolition had not actually been realized. He hoped to encourage the return of French settlers to the colonies, believing they were better able than the blacks to defend French interests against the British.
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