Question
Write a brief note on the abolition of slavery in France.
Solution
The abolition of slavery:
(i) The most revolutionary social reform of Jacobin regime was the abolition of slavery in French colonies but it did not pass any laws because it felt that businessmen could oppose this step as government depended on incomes of slave trade.
(i) The most revolutionary social reform of Jacobin regime was the abolition of slavery in French colonies but it did not pass any laws because it felt that businessmen could oppose this step as government depended on incomes of slave trade.
(ii) Finally in Convention of 1794, a law was passed to free all slaves in the French colonies. But it was short term measure as 10 years later, it was again introduced by Nepolean.
(iii) Plantation owners understand their freedom as including the right to enslave African Negroes in pursuit of their economic interests. Slavery was finally abolished in French Colonies in 1848.
