How was slavery finally abolished in france
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(i) One of the most revolutionary social reforms of the Jacobin regime was the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
(ii) 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 were packed tightly into ships for the three-month long voyage across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and were sold to plantation owners.
(iii)Growing demand in European markets for sugar, coffee, and indigo was met by exploitation of slave labour.Port cities like Bordeaux and Nantes owed their economic prosperity to the flourishing slave trade.
(iv)Throughout the eighteenth century there was little criticism of slavery in France. The National Assembly held long debates about whether the rights of man should be extended to all French subjects including those in the colonies.
(v) It was finally the Convention which in 1794 legislated to free all slaves in the French overseas possessions.
(vi) This, however, turned out to be a short-term measure: ten years later, Napoleon reintroduced slavery.
(vii) Plantation owners understood their freedom as including the right to enslave African Negroes in pursuit of their economic interests.
(viii) Slavery was finally abolished in French colonies in 1848.
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(i) One of the most revolutionary social reforms of the Jacobin regime was the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
(ii) 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 were packed tightly into ships for the three-month long voyage across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and were sold to plantation owners.
(iii)Growing demand in European markets for sugar, coffee, and indigo was met by exploitation of slave labour.Port cities like Bordeaux and Nantes owed their economic prosperity to the flourishing slave trade.
(iv)Throughout the eighteenth century there was little criticism of slavery in France. The National Assembly held long debates about whether the rights of man should be extended to all French subjects including those in the colonies.
(v) It was finally the Convention which in 1794 legislated to free all slaves in the French overseas possessions.
(vi) This, however, turned out to be a short-term measure: ten years later, Napoleon reintroduced slavery.
(vii) Plantation owners understood their freedom as including the right to enslave African Negroes in pursuit of their economic interests.
(viii) Slavery was finally abolished in French colonies in 1848.
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