France commemorates slavery abolition in a day to honor victims of slave trade • FRANCE 24 English
this year’s commemoration of slavery was moved out of Paris to a symbolic location LEL one of the port cities used in the slave trade this is where ships began their expeditions to Africa first and then to America for two centuries right here in Lael ships left this port 447 times sealing the fate of at least 160,000 women and men who were taken from Africa 160,000 people out of millions of people who were the victims of slavery and the slave trade in the past France often hailed in its commemorations white activists and political figures who had opposed slavery now the focus is on slaves who resisted the crimes against humanity carried out against them one type of resistance was called Maron one type of mar lasted only a few hours a slave would Escape temporarily and would sometimes meet with other slaves that’s called little Mage the other type is longer and better organized slaves would escape and try to live autonomously with other slaves in Metropolitan France several slaves argued in courts that they could not be held captive because slavery was only legal in the colonies Clarice p trade in this statue inaugurated on Friday is one of the slaves who won their case and gained freedom
Gabriel Attal presided over the ceremony commemorating the abolition of slavery in La Rochelle on Friday. “For too long, a veil has been cast over this past”. “Acknowledging it doesn’t mean weakening; on the contrary, it means growing,” he added. “As long as there has been slavery, there has been resistance” and “on this May 10th, it is also this spirit of resistance that I wish to salute”. Story by Ludmila Zie (Outre-mer la 1ère) and Shirli Sitbon.
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9 comments
They had enslaved Israelites. Checkout the old books posted in the video, Dante Forston.
Have they allocated reparations funds for the victims?
most slave revolts had no lasting affect beyond harsher conditions never worked for Spartacus and going by its current condition never realy worked for Haiti either
Where’re the former slaves? How’d they turn out?
I believe all nations went through this including……………!
On the other hand, it was pretty cheap labor…
That images of slavery, not lowering that far back standard of epoques. Abolishing only now? Year 2024.
Pay compehnsation .
It's time to come back to these glorious times!