Historical Organization
French Provisional Government
French Provisional Government
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The French provisional government creates an abolition commission
📅 4 March 1848On 4 March 1848, the provisional government created a commission to prepare abolition. This political opening followed the February Revolution and decades of resistance by enslaved people,...
France decrees abolition of slavery in its colonies
📅 27 April 1848The French Provisional Government decreed the abolition of slavery in French colonies. The decree followed the revolution in France and sustained resistance by enslaved and free people across the...
France decrees abolition throughout its colonies and possessions
📅 27 April 1848On 27 April 1848, the provisional government decreed the abolition of slavery in all French colonies and possessions. The decree prohibited corporal punishment and the sale of people, and provided for...
Commissioner Pariset proclaims the abolition decree in Cayenne
📅 10 June 1848On 10 June 1848, Commissioner-General André-Aimé Pariset proclaimed the abolition decree in French Guiana. The proclamation made the decree public in the colony; it did not mean emancipation took...
Abolition takes legal effect in French Guiana
📅 10 August 1848On 10 August 1848, the April abolition decree took legal effect in French Guiana, freeing people still enslaved under colonial law. About 12,943 people were recorded as enslaved in the colony in 1847....