223 years ago on this date in 1794 France abolished slavery. As a nation they had a lukewarm commitment to abolition. Under Napoleon Bonaparte they reestablished slavery in 1802 along with the reinstitution of the « Code noir ».These orders carried out by General Antoine Richepance brutally reinstituted slavery in the French Antilles in 1802. France finally ended slavery in 1848.
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