Décret de la Convention nationale, du 16.e jour de pluviôse: an second de la Republique française, une et indivisible, qui abolit l'esclavage des Nègres dans les Colonies
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France. Convention nationale
Description
Original edition of the decree which freed blacks from slavery. Eight years later, Napoleon would resolve to re-enslave colonial Negroes and send an army to crush Tousaint L’Ouverture.
Administrative Acts
1799
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Sidney Lapidus Slavery and Abolition CollectionRecord Contributed By
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. The New York Public LibraryRecord Harvested From
The New York Public LibraryKeywords
- Abolition Movement
- Abolitionists
- African Americans
- Antislavery Movements
- Blacks
- Colonies
- Enslaved People
- France
- Slave Trade
- Slaver
- Slavery