Answer:
One of the most
revolutionary social reforms of the Jacobin regime was the abolition of
slavery. An acute shortage of labour in the French Caribbean colonies,
Martinique, Guadeloupe and San Domingo, led to a triangular slave trade between
Europe, Africa and America in the 17th century.
The National Assembly held long debates and finally. The Convention in
1794 passed laws freeing slaves in the French overseas possessions but it was
last for a short terms. After ten years, slavery was reintroduced by Napoleon.
Finally, it was abolished in 1848.
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