Write a note on the abolition of slavery
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Explanation:
Slavery abolition act , (1833), in british history act of Parliament that abolition slavery in most British colonies , freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada . It received Royal Assent on August 28 1833 and took effect on August 1, 1834.
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(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.
There were a series of events since the beginning of the idea of the Black mans' freedom in France.
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The owners feared the abolition since they had no other option to source for labor on their firms.
The revolutionary legislators pressurized France to free the mulattoes from slavery and give them full human rights.
The internationalist group "friends of the black" fought for representation and rights of the blacks.
In 1804 Saint Dominique became the independent republic of Haiti and the blacks were freed after a struggle.
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