Félix Éboué
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Adolphe Sylvestre Félix Éboué was a French colonial administrator. He was the first black French man appointed to a high post in the French colonies, when appointed acting governor of Guadeloupe in 19
Éboué, pictured c. 1944
Félix Éboué cartoon by Charles Alston, 1943
Death mask of Félix Éboué at the Musée de l'Ordre de la Libération
AEF 242 Felix Eboue 2f 1945
Victor Schœlcher
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Victor Schœlcher was a French abolitionist, writer, politician and journalist, best known for his leading role in the abolition of slavery in France in 1848, during the Second Republic.
Portrait by Henri Decaisne, 1832
Schœlcher in 1848, by Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne
Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848 by François-Auguste Biard
Photograph of Schœlcher by Étienne Carjat, between 1876–1884