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30
Yüni
1983

France establishes local annual commemorations of slavery’s abolition

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📅 30 Yüni 1983 📍 Guyana Franses

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 policy, while local communities continued to shape what abolition and its aftermath meant. The later decree assigned French Guiana its own date.

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French lawmakers

descendants of enslaved people

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French Republic

French Parliament