Discuss France's role in the slave trade?

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During the American Revolutionary War, after the big Franco-American victory at Yorktown, the French took their fleet and set sail for the Caribbean. At this time, Jamaica was more valuable to the British economy than the entire thirteen American colonies and Britain was about to get kicked out of the region entirely. In a letter from King George III to Lord Sandwich, he declared that he would protect Britain's important Caribbean islands at the risk of Britain herself. France's ambitions fell short after suffering a major defeat at the Battle of the Saints in which their Caribbean fleet was destroyed.

Later on in 1794 a law was passed in France to free all slaves in French overseas possessions. But this lasted only for 10 years because when Napoleon became the emperor of France he reintroduced slavery and they all had to go back to work in 1804 -- the same year France lost St. Domingue aka Haiti, the world's most profitable colony at the time. France absolutely dominated all other European countries in the Caribbean region in terms of production, precisely because they shipped in way more slaves than anyone else. It was something they were highly efficient at. Of the 1,381,000 Africans loaded onto French ships during the course of the transatlantic trade, 1,165,000 survived the Middle Passage, most ended up in Haiti. In 1818 the slave trade was abolished, but the French slavers didn't care and just went on slaving until 1848 when the whole industry began winding down.

I like how Haitians later on took revenge and undertook a literal white genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre