Abolition of Slave Trade

Introduction

The Friends of Blacks is an association created February 19, 1788 which was intended for the immediate abolition of the slave trade, not slavery; one hand in order to maintain the economy of the French colonies, and secondly the idea that prior access to freedom, blacks was to be prepared, and thus educated. They addressed to the National Assembly which is presented here on February 5, 1790. The reply to the National Assembly which is presented here dates from the 5th February 17901.

Discussion

In the Thirteen English colonies, the United States after 1783, slavery develops relatively late, especially in the southern states for growing tobacco, but also in the northern states (domestic). Note that this is when one plans to abolish trafficking and slavery that the Americans will significantly increase their slave labor in the service of large cotton growers in the early 19th century. Few voices were raised against an operating system of slave labor which, if documented any time since olden days, is now the subject of considerable international traffic2.

The French colonial societies therefore oppose a large body of slaves (perhaps 600,000 in the West Indies in 1789) to a low number of white settlers (about 40,000). The settlers are related, firstly, with the royal power which they have sought protection since the colonies are royal properties and, secondly, with large dealers .

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1 Ott, T. Haitian Revolution 1789-1804. Univ Tennessee Press (1987).pp.14-89

3Slavery and the French Revolution: Retrieved from http://www.historywiz.com/slavery-frenchrev.htm on 19th April, 2012

These traders carry trade in sugar and other plantation crops (coffee and indigo in the highlands of Santo Domingo).

Finally, while the code knows only two categories of people - and slaves - the free people of color are gradually being denied equality with whites they cannot succeed to titles of nobility, some ...