Write a short note on slavery in France.
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The colonies in the Caribbean-Martinique, Guadeloupe and San Domingo were important supplies of commodities such as tobacco, indigo sugar and coffee.
This was met by slave trade between Europe, Africa and America.
The slave trade began in the seventeenth century.
French merchants sailed from the ports of Bordeaux or Nantes to the African coast, where they bought slaves from local chieftains.
They Exploitation of slave labor made it possible to meet the growing demands in European markets for sugar, coffee and indigo.
It was finally the convention which in the 1794 legislated to free all the slaves in the french over seas possessions.
But Ten year later, Napoleon resumed suavely .
Plantation owners understood their freedom as including, the right to enslave African Negroes, in pursuit of there economic interests.
Slavery was finally abolished in French colonies in the year, 1884.
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