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Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. [1] Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of ...
The National Convention declares slavery abolished throughout all the colonies: consequently, it decrees that all men, without distinction of color, domiciliated in the colonies, are French citizens, and entitled to the enjoyment of all the rights secured by the Constitution.
The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. [1]
Slaves could testify in court but their testimony couldn't be considered a proof or be the basis for a ruling (art.30) A slave who struck his or her master, his wife, mistress or children would be executed (art. 33) A slave husband and wife and their prepubescent children under the same master were not to be sold separately (art. 47)
The slave trade continued under the operation of the Compagnie du Sénégal from 1658 to 1709. The company traded slaves with the Hausa Kingdoms, Mali, and the Moors in Mauritania. [11] As of 1778, the French were trafficking approximately 13,000 African people as slaves to the French West Indies each year. [12]
The 1956 Supplementary Convention on Slavery came into force on April 30, 1957 and of 2002 there were 97 states partied to the convention. The Slavery Convention and its supplementary document are beneficial in providing an international definition of slavery; however, there is no significant enforcement behind these documents.
A series of events took place from 1791 which led to the abolition of institutionalized slavery in France, including the establishment of the national convention and the election of the first Assembly of the First Republic (1792–1804), on 4 February 1794, under the leadership of Maximilien Robespierre, culminating in the passing of the Law of 4 February 1794, which abolished slavery in all ...
Front page of Address to the National Assembly by the Société des amis des noirs, February 1790 Front page of Société des amis des noirs, March 1791. The Society of the Friends of the Blacks (Société des amis des Noirs or Amis des noirs) was a French abolitionist society founded by Jacques Pierre Brissot and Étienne Clavière and directly inspired by the Society for Effecting the ...