write a note on salavery in french colonies
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Slavery was first abolished by the French Republic in 1794, but Napoleon revoked that decree in 1802. In 1815, the Republic abolished the slave trade but the decree did not come into effect until 1826. France re-abolished slavery in her colonies in 1848 with a general and unconditional emancipation
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The abolition of slavery:
(i) The most revolutionary social reform of Jacobin regime was the abolition of slavery in French colonies but it did not pass any laws because it felt that businessmen could oppose this step as government depended on incomes of slave trade.
(ii) Finally in Convention of 1794, a law was passed to free all slaves in the French colonies. But it was short term measure as 10 years later, it was again introduced by Nepolean.
(iii) Plantation owners understand their freedom as including the right to enslave African Negroes in pursuit of their economic interests. Slavery was finally abolished in French Colonies in 1848.
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