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Africa: Trans Atlantic Slave Trade

Written bySokari Ekine
Posted 11 May 2006 10:05 GMT

Rethabile posts from Mzansi Afrika on the day France remembers its role in the Atlantic slave trade. ..“France was Europe's fourth largest slave trader after Portugal, England and Spain and transported about 1.25 million slaves. France abolished slavery in 1794, after a successful revolt by slaves in the island colony of Haiti.”

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