Law of 20 May 1802
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title:
Law of 20 May 1802
text:
The French Law of 20 May 1802 was passed by Napoleon Bonaparte that day, revoking the Law of 4 February 1794 which had abolished slavery in all the French colonies. However, the 1794 decree was only implemented in Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe and Guiana; it did not take effect in Mauritius, Réunion and Martinique, the last of which had been captured by the British and thus was unaffected by French law. The law of reintroducing slavery in France was an integral part of the Napoleonic Code. The colo
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description:
Law reinstating slavery in the French colonial empire
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_20_May_1802
date created:
2009-01-27T16:01:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T07:33:55Z
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