Nantes and the French Atlantic slave trade (1680–1815)

1. Code Noir regulates slavery in French colonies

   Mar 1, 1685Labels: Code Noir, Louis XIV

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2. Nantes launches its first recorded slaving voyage

   Jan 1, 1707Labels: Nantes Port, slaving voyage

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3. Compagnie des Indes sales privilege boosts Nantes commerce

   Sep 1, 1720Labels: Compagnie des, Nantes

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4. Nantes expands slaving activity during the 1730s

   Jan 1, 1730Labels: Nantes, slave trade

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5. War disrupts Atlantic trade and slave voyages

   Jan 1, 1740Labels: War of, maritime warfare

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6. Nantes becomes France’s leading slave-trading port

   Jan 1, 1750Labels: Nantes Port, slave trade

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7. Seven Years’ War reshapes France’s Atlantic priorities

   Jan 1, 1756Labels: Seven Years', French merchants

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8. Purpose-built slaver Marie-Séraphique illustrates shipboard realities

   Oct 1, 1764Labels: Marie-S raphique, Nantes

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9. French Revolution accelerates political conflict over slavery

   Jul 14, 1789Labels: French Revolution, colonies

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10. France abolishes slavery in its colonies (first abolition)

    Feb 4, 1794Labels: National Convention, abolition 1794

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11. Napoleon’s 1802 law restores slavery and the slave trade

    May 20, 1802Labels: Napoleon, restoration 1802

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12. Napoleon decrees abolition of the slave trade

    Mar 29, 1815Labels: Napoleon, abolition 1815

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13. Nantes public memory turns with ‘Les Anneaux de la Mémoire’

    Dec 1, 1992Labels: Les Anneaux, Nantes

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14. Nantes inaugurates Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery

    Mar 25, 2012Labels: Memorial to, Quai de

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