In 1848, before the age of the 'new imperialism', France already claimed an overseas empire extending from the Americas to ... traders and Catholic missionaries completed the French colonial presence.

On Réunion emancipation occurred only on December 20. Still, by the end of 1848, the year of revolution had brought liberty to all French colonial slaves. Adelaide-Merlande, Jacques. "La Commission ...

“Our possession in the West Coast is possibly one of all our colonies that has before it the great future and deserves the whole sympathy and attention of the empire,” he wrote to the colonial office ...

The law tabled by Christiane Taubira makes it mandatory to teach the history of slavery during the French colonial empire ... it was officially announced in 1848. However, 10 May has its ...

France’s colonial record The defenders of the law fail to mention French ... abolition in 1848. They point to the benefits of civilisation brought to the peoples of the empire—education ...

They represent just a fraction of some 4 million people "enslaved in the French colonial empire, whether victims of trafficking or born locally into a status of servitude," according to the French ...

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept ...