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French Anti-Slavery - The Movement for the Abolition of Slavery in France, 1802-1848 (Paperback, New ed)
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French Anti-Slavery - The Movement for the Abolition of Slavery in France, 1802-1848 (Paperback, New ed)
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Some works have examined the first and temporary abolition of
French colonial slavery during the French Revolutionary era, but
relatively little is known about the second French abolitionist
movement that culminated in the freeing of a quarter of a million
slaves in 1848. This book fills the huge gap in existing
historiography by providing a detailed study of French anti-slavery
forces during this period, explaining why France abolished colonial
slavery fifteen years later than Britain but fifteen years before
emancipation in the United States. It traces the largely political
struggle of a cautious, elitist group of humanitarians against a
well-organized colonial lobby and a largely indifferent July
Monarchy government. The few radical, determined abolitionists,
like the black Cyrille Bissette, were too marginal to move French
public opinion and bring about abolition until the Revolution of
1848 brought the Second Republic to power.
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