France~European Countries That Paid Millions in Reparations to Slave Owners When Enslaved Black People Were Freed... Slavery was abolished by the French revolutionary government in 1790, but Napoleon restored it in 1803. In 1818, the French government decided to abolish slavery again, but it was not put in effect until 1830. By 1848, all enslaved people in the French Caribbean ( Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Croix, St. Bartholomew, Tortuga, and French Guiana) were freed based on French abolitionist Victor Schoelcher’s emancipation proposals. Slave owners were compensated with a total of 126 million francs, approximately US$16 billion today.
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