📅 27 April 1848
The 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...
📅 4 March 1848
On 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,...
📅 27 April 1848
On 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...
📅 27 April 1848
The decree abolished slavery in French colonies and possessions and declared that French citizens could not own or traffic enslaved people. Abolition was a victory shaped by enslaved people’s...
