write a short note on slavery in france in points
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Acute shortage of labour in the French Caribbean colonies led to a triangular slave trade between Europe, America and Africa in the 17th century. French merchants sailed from Bordeaux or Nantes to the African coasts, where they bought slaves from local chiefs. These slaves were then sold to plantation owners in the Caribbean.
Slave labour enabled the Caribbean colonies to meet the growing demand for sugar, coffee and indigo.
The Convention of 1794 passed laws freeing slaves in the French colonies. Slavery was however, reintroduced by Napoleon; but finally abolished in 1848.
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1- Slavery was first abolished by the French Republic in 1794,but Napoleon I revoked that decree in 1804.
2- In 1815, the Republic abolished the slave trade but the decree did not come into effect until 1826.
3- France reabolished slavery in her colonies in 1848 with a general and unconditional emancipation.