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
Cyrille Bissette
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Cyrille Bissette was a French abolitionist, politician and publisher. A free person of color from Martinique, his radical activities and publications galvanized the abolition movement in France and it
Cyrille Bissette
