Napoleon restores slavery in the French colonies
1802 · Event
Eight years after the Republic abolished slavery, Napoleon brings it back where France still holds power — Guadeloupe and Martinique return to the plantation regime. In Saint-Domingue the news turns a colonial pacification into a war of extermination: the black army now knows exactly what defeat would mean.
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