EVENT INFORMATION

4
Novèmber
1848

The Constitution prohibits slavery on all French territory

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📅 4 Novèmber 1848 📍 Guyana Franses

Article 6 of the Constitution of the Second Republic states that slavery cannot exist on any French territory. The constitutional guarantee followed emancipation in French Guiana and made abolition a stated principle of the republic. It did not undo the colonial inequalities in land, wealth, or labor that shaped life after emancipation.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

French Constituent Assembly

formerly enslaved people

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French Republic

French National Assembly