By order of the revolutionary government that had come to power after the abdication of King Louis Philippe in February, France declares all slaves in French colonies to be free. (By Brian Bockelman)
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Junius P. Rodriguez, Chronology of World Slavery (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 1999), 183.
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