All Slaves are Free on French Soil - The medieval French Abolition movement
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2024
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Remarkable great successes of abolitionism in France coincided with the Hundred Year War.
In the 600s St Bathilde was a former slave who married the king and tried to end the slave trade in what was later France.
Wow, didnt know
Wiki: "She abolished the practice of trading Christian slaves and strove to free children who had been sold into slavery. Balthild and Eligius, according to Dado, "worked together on their favourite charity, the buying and freeing of slaves". I still have to check an academic source, but you seem correct. Cool!
@@Stephans_History_of_the_World you are welcome
Yup 😅
Queen Bathilde was born in 630 and died in 680, so I think you got confused by talking about the 17th century, a millennium earlier.
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Same!
They had a similar law in England, although it came a few hundred years later. There was a court case concerning an escaped slave, and the judge ruled that anyone who breathed English air was made free by doing so
Hello😊 Super interesting content, even for a french person very much into history. The sequence from J. Bodin onward was very well-known to me but the earlier part was pretty much new, so thanks.
The bit on Napoleon is a bit disappointing though. Your facts are straight but Napoleon’s relation with and thoughts on slavery are so much more complex. The Code civil abolished feudal privileges and established equality before the law and he took it with him in his many conquests, including in Italy and Germany. Let’s not forget that he was a child - and a brilliant general - of the French Revolution. Long story short, it’s not a matter you can evacuate with two bullet points.
At a formal level, I believe your video is well done. Your tone and speech pace are perfect, writing is on - and straight to the - point. However you could probably improve it with a few more documents and graphic pieces. It’s a video, not an audio podcast, so bringing more visual stuff might enrich the viewer’s experience.
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Great! Thanks
The French revolution abolished slavery in 1794. Napoleon reinstated it in 1802 along with the Caribbean slave trade. He also reinstated the catholic church as the state religion. What it says in the history books.
Free Slaves - where’s the catch? Is it really Buy one, get one free?
Love the content hate the form. Please fix your audio system it’s so bad and distracting. 😪
Please tell me more. Im still experimenting. What is distracting?
The audio is a bit muffled when listening on headphone, check other UA-camrs and see the difference in terms of quality. Their sound is sharp and clear; yours is a bit muffled. Specially if I’m focused only in your voice as if it’s a podcast or audiobook. I love the content though; but I’m so used of clear professional sound that I noticed the difference immediately.
Okay. I will try to figure out what is going on.
@@Stephans_History_of_the_World I don't think it's that big of a deal. I think the quality is at a good level for a growing channel.
Thanks. Im trying to improve something small every time. Do you have some other tips, by the way?
Be careful you are confusing slaves and serfs, servus in Latin. Unlike the slave the serf cannot be sold it is not a movable good but rather real estate, to summarize it is a sharecropper attached to a landed estate who owes a part of his harvest to his lord but can only leave his land with the agreement of his lord. The difference is subtle but what must be remembered is that the serf cannot be sold like merchandise, he has rights and can take legal action if the decisions of his lord are contrary to his survival and that of his family. (Royal and ecclesiastical justice).
But muh colonialism. Whaa whaaa, decolonize my feels
Colonialism in Africa was not colonialism in Americas.
Thank you for making a video on this! Was starting to believe i was the only person who knew this 😅