📅 30 April 1849
A law provides indemnities to colonial owners after abolition. The state compensated former enslavers for the loss of people it had treated as property; formerly enslaved people received no equivalent...
📅 11 July 1851
A national law provides for colonial banks, including a bank in French Guiana. The scheme was tied to the post-emancipation economy and was discussed as a possible source of credit for freedpeople...
📅 30 June 1983
A French law established annual commemorations of the abolition of slavery in specified overseas territories and a national memorial framework. The law made public remembrance a matter of state...
