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When was there a vote and decree to abolish the French slave trade and slavery in France's overseas colonies?

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When was there a vote and decree to abolish the French slave trade and slavery in France's overseas colonies?
posted Mar 3, 2023 by Puneet Batra

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1794
The decree was passed in the first months of the Reign of Terror in France, following the 1789 Revolution. However, the 1794 decree was only implemented in Saint-Domingue (which included enslaved Haitians who had started a rebellion in the colony a few months before), Guadeloupe and French Guiana. The colonies of Senegal, Mauritius, Réunion and Martinique and French India resisted the decree. In 1802 Napoléon Bonaparte reinstated slavery throughout the West Indies colonies, but in 1848 the Provisional Government established after the 1848 Revolution abolished it again.

answer Mar 6, 2023 by Pankaj Deshmukh
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