Question

Write a note on French slave trade in short

Answer 1

An acute shortage of labour in the French Caribbean colonies Martinique  Guadeloupe and San Domingo led a triangular slave  trade between Europe, America and Africa in the 17th century.

French merchants sailed from Bordeaux or Nantes to the African  coast where they brought slaves from local chief and sold them  to plantation owners in the Caribbean.  The convention in 1794 passed laws freeing slaves  in the French overseas possessions. However, ten years later,  slavery was reintroduced by Napoleon. It was finally abolished  in 1848.

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