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France legislates compensation for former enslavers

📅 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...

France legislates colonial banks after abolition

📅 11 Yüli 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...

France establishes local annual commemorations of slavery’s abolition

📅 30 Yüni 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...