PARIS (AP) — Vandals have defaced a monument celebrating the abolition of slavery in southern France, in an apparent response to growing anger over entrenched racism and calls for the removal of ...

A testament to the ideological underpinnings of emancipation is consecrated in the east of France, where the Abolition Trail connects four key sites that helped pave the way towards freedom for ...

The memorial will list the names of those freed in 1848, a design some say does more to glorify France for abolition than to atone for slavery itself. By Catherine Porter Catherine Porter reported ...

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Throughout the Americas, acts of resistance undermined slaveholders’ power, destabilized systems of slavery and hastened ...

Haitian General Toussaint Louverture was a prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution (front). In the 1800s, he was arrested and imprisoned in France’s Fort de Joux (back) where he is now remembered ...