Why did slavery begin and why was it abolished in france colonies?
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Slavery is very ancient: the oldest laws we have are simply rules for something already existing. This was because having rights originally depended on being members of a kin-group, or adopted into it.
As for French abolition, the Abolition of slavery timeline says it was largely abolished in Metropolitan France in 1315. But French colonies like other colonies found slave labour convenient.
It was abolished in French possessions in 1794 in a fit of radican enthusiasm. Napoleon restored it in 1802.
They finally got rid of it as part of the enthusiasm for the French Second Republic in 1848.
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